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Stalking: Can you report a hacker if you are using a fake name? Details below.

  • I forgot to recommend that there is a virus on my computer that he put there and I don't know how to have it removed.  I actually think I'm going about this the wrong way.  I need to try again to get this virus removed.  No matter what account I create, he finds it, no matter what name I use.  He finds it within about a half hour.  The new account was created at the library under a fake name I have never used before.  I use a different city and everything.   We were romatically involved.  After this ended, I didn't mind so much him showing up everywhere in every forum and account I created such as Facebook, Sierra Club, etc but he likes to hack.  I cannot and will not tolerate someone making my decisions for me.  Not too long ago, when I first created my new Facebook account, and only had about 10 friends, I got this one friend that I did not send a friend request to.  Yet there she was in my friends list.  I did not get a friend request from her either.  So I deleted her.  The next day when I signed in, she was back in my friends list. I know for a fact she was deleted because when I clicked that option, a confirmation appeared and I even went to my friends list to make sure.  She was not there at that time.  Everything is viewable to friends only.   In the past, this person used to like to send his young female friends to gather info, unless he was doing it himself through that account.  I thought he had issues and wanted to help him.   At first, it was just small things like this.  I really wish he would just leave me alone.  Now he gets in and puts very strange, troll like comments on my friend's walls.  I have explained to them that I have a hacker. I delete them as soon as I can find them.  It's just getting so old now.  I know if I was using my real name and he did this, I definitely would have legal recourse.  The only problem is, I don't want to use my real name for anything because I also am involved in a custody case and I don't want the father to use anything I say on the internet and twist it somehow and use it against me.  For instance, the fact that I am against pharmaceuticals and conventional medicine and prefer herbalism.   Also, I am in the United States in Michigan, if that helps.   Thank you for any information.  :)

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    Thank you for asking me to answer, and I will try to tell you everything I know about stalking for 56 credits - really just kidding. I feel your pain. There is a sociopath that I failed to recognize as extremely manipulative and evil, and he got my computer password, ostensibly to help me with a problem with my email. The next day, he had changed my icons, etc. He denied everything. Of course, I changed my password, and avoided all contact with him. He called constantly about one thing or another, and apparently got very angry about something and made up false statements about me to the police, actually accusing ME of threatening him. I just wanted nothing to do with him. However, he signed a sworn affidavit to the police stating that he feared for his life, and that resulted in a court case that I won. He lost his job, and in his sick mind, decided I had something to do with it (I didn't). So, then, he went to the sheriff and signed a peace bond, which didn't fly either - but I still had to go to court again to defend myself. The absolute worse was recently, after a year of absolutely no contact with this person, when he went to the police with apparently made up emails from a fake address, impersonating me, and the emails stated (I haven't seen them yet, but he did this to another woman, and she contacted me) that I was going to BLOW HIM UP! So, back to court again sometime this year, and after talking to the police, I realized that there was nothing I could do that wouldn't turn this into a he said/she said type of thing, so I can't effectively swear out an affidavit for harassment, but a civil suit will follow, on my lawyer's advice. Luckily, a witness to his behavior came forward and found me on Facebook. Anyway, he thinks of himself as a hacker, and when I knew him, he would do things like utilize spoof cards to call people from numbers they wouldn't recognize. I get constant hang-ups now. In October of 2011, he contacted AT&T and impersonated my husband, stating that he could have access to our phone account. I didn't find out until I was studying my phone bill online in May of 2012. There was nothing the attorney general's office could do, because "he didn't make any charges on your account." With respect to hacking into my computer, except for that one time, I have no evidence that he has done so, although he did at one time give me an encryption key (Yubikey) which I tossed. I think my nut is not that talented. Your ex is using behavior in a manner that would lead you to be fearful, or should lead you to be fearful. That behavior is sadistic and controlling. You have to go to the authorities. Your ex-husband doesn't have to know immediately, and, by the way, herbalism isn't like satanism or something! It's interesting that you mention this guy tries to get women to do his dirty work for him - my nemesis does the same thing, which is how this person who is now a very good friend found me. He called the police to arrest her one day, about a month after signing an affidavit against me. His father, a very incompetent or negligent parent and psychologist, told the police they would not press charges. A year later he contacted this same woman (we seem to run in parallel) and told her if SHE contacted HIM he would take legal action. He had asked her to send him some emails just prior to that, claiming he had not received them, and she thinks he is trying to build a case for harassment. I know identity theft is bad, but this has been terrible. My license plate expired without me noticing, and the police turned on their blue lights and stopped me. I was literally terrified, not knowing what lies he had made up. I have no doubt that these emails he fabricated recently from an account he obviously set up with my name will be presented in court, but I have witnesses to his intentions, his past behavior and to his psychiatric condition (one of his former attendings in the psychiatry department told me he was a sociopath. He repeated it twice. And the guy was fired from his residency, so obviously someone recognized something dangerous about him.) I also have my own phone records and computer hard drive, which should reveal that I never emailed him. However, this is city court, so I don't know how sophisticated the evidence I present will actually be, on the advice of my attorney.  I lock all my doors and double lock them, as he lives nearby. He reminds me of the typical person who goes in and shoots up a mall because their life is so miserable. An obsession with harming someone is dangerous and causes an incredible amount of stress in the victim's life. I would go to the police department and ask them to open an investigation. Cyberstalking and hacking into someone's accounts online is illegal. You would probably be surprised at how sophisticated the detectives may be. If you sign an affidavit explaining what you have explained in your question, then perhaps they can seize his computer and examine his hard drive. I would be very careful, and perhaps get a restraining order. Good luck. I'll be thinking about you so let me know how things turn out.

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There are a few ways to stop "internet stalking" Stop using Facebook to post personal details about your life on the internet. Stop using Twitter to post personal details about your life on the internet. Stop using Instagram to post personal details about your life on the internet. Stop using Foursquare to post personal details about your life on the internet. You get the picture. For specific Facebook-related issues, here's what I would recommend: Delete your current Facebook account. Create a new account with a new password and a new fake name.  Make sure you use a really good password.  (http://www.cs.umd.edu/faq/Passwords.shtml) Before adding any friends, use the privacy settings to set the visibility & privacy to "maximum" settings.  (see below) Don't authorize any 3rd party applications to view your stream.   Don't use Facebook to log in to any other sites. Follow guides like this one to lock down your profile: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/how-protect-your-privacy-facebooks-graph-search Add your friends, and only the ones that you really, really trust.  P.S. I'm guessing that the problems you're having is because you authorized a 3rd party application to access your Facebook account.

Steve Lacy

Answer to your title question: No. Because using a fake profile is in itself a violation of Facebook policies. Check this for more info: As far as your problem is concerned, here is my answer: Well, you don't need to take any extreme measures as disabling your account and creating a new ones and maintaining different accounts. The problem simply looks like he had installed a keylogger software on your computer. What this software does is record every keystroke that you type on the computer and sends it to the person who has installed the keylogger (the attacker). In rare cases, if you have a desktop computer, there are certain kinds of hardware keyloggers which are small devices attached between your keyboard and the desktop CPU. These devices record stuff and send them to the attacker. Something like this: If you think that you have a desktop and can find a hardware keylogger, just remove this small device (the black device in the above picture) and you'll be good to go. If its not, then depending on the operating system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) you are using, there are various ways to remove this keylogger software but the easiest way is to install an anti-virus on every computer you are using and perform a full system scan. I recommend Kaspersky anti-virus or Symantec Norton Anti-virus suite. It should be able to detect most of the keyloggers and remove them. If that doesn't help your case, then in that case, you need to backup your data and format your computer. You must have received (or created) a set of recovery disks when you bought the computer. Use those to bring back your computer to factory settings. If you don't know how to do that, take your computer to the customer care and ask them to format your system for you and install an anti-virus software. Make sure you have a backup of everything you need. This is really important. If you don't know how to backup, ask one of your trustworthy friends to do it for you because formatting the system will erase every data on your computer (Software, Photos, Music etc.) and bring it to factory defaults. Once you are done with that, then the next step would be to change the passwords of all the accounts that, you think, are compromised. Since you have formatted the computer there is no way for the attacker to know your password now. The keylogger software does not exist on the computer anymore. Change your Facebook password and make sure you don't install games which are not famous. Before playing any game on Facebook, do a quick search for the game name on google and get its review. You can also use this: http://www.mywot.com/. Go ahead and read about it. :-). Also, set the best privacy settings for your Facebook account as Steve Lacy mentioned. From there on, you can start afresh. You wouldn't need fake names as well. :-). Then if he bothers you in any other way (since he wouldn't have his old ways), by all means, report him using your legitimate account. Last but not the least, do not click on unknown spam links that you receive in your email or on Facebook. :-). Let me know if you need elaboration on any other point. So in summary: 1. Get rid of keylogger:     a) Install anti-virus and do a full system scan.     b) If a) does not work, take backup and format the system. 2. Create a legitimate account on Facebook and change passwords for all the other accounts. 3. Change the privacy settings for your Facebook account. 4. Before playing games, search for its review on google. Also, install http://www.mywot.com/. 5. Last step, report that crazy privacy-violating son-of-a-b**** ex of yours.

Gaurav Jain

You should report this to the police immediately. If what you say is true then amount of effort he is using to monitor you is a real concern and threat. A lot of officers don't like these calls and try to call them civil but they are criminal. If you don't get satisfaction contact a police supervisor, crisis center worker and the local protector.

Anonymous

Hi, I feel with you, I also get cyberstalked by some weird guy which I don't even know ( neither does he know me ) However, you are in the lucky position, that you live in the State of Michigan and I assume, your stalker also. They have laws against that: http://www.haltabuse.org/resources/laws/michigan.shtml So here is what you do- Make screenshots of all stalking stuff you stumble upon, past and present. print them or keep them on a DVD. In other words, collect evidence. As much as you can. If you got enough, then go to the Police Department. Ask when there would be a convenient time to report the crime. ( No joke, but Police Stations have rush hours too.) If anything only remotely make you or an average woman believe, that physical harm could come to you. - Then don't hesitate to go straight to the Police. Aside of this, check for those keyloggers. If you find a "Physical" one as described, don't touch it and call the Police to send forensics. On the "software" installed ones you could also ask the Police to examine your computer BEFORE you delete them, as they can point to the Person who downloads those data. All in all- try to think like a cop and help them. Good Luck

Guenther Vomberg

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