Error: Access Denied with sendFriendMessage method

[Siple]

Hello, so I wanted to use the sendFriendMessage method to send a message to myself being a friend of the bot. I.e: a random user types a command and a message to submit a help request (ex !help <msg>), "Message sent by random user" is then sent using the sendFriendMessage to me friend of the bot but when I try that it logs Error: AccessDenied. Here is my code:  

let ownerID = my_main_account_id;

//bot sends a message to owner to notify that a new help case was sent
client.chat.sendFriendMessage(ownerID, `New help message received from <b>${username}<b>.`, (response, msg) => {
   console.log(response, msg);//response -> error AccessDenied and no msg
});

 

Edited February 18, 2020 by Siple

[Dr. McKay]

What's the value of your ownerID?