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Hello and greetings to the general populace of this wiki. You may or may not be familiar with me. That's irrelevant. The only thing that is relevant to me right now is the multiple layers of ****** and in trouble that I'm currently in.
Why?
Straightforward.
Yesterday night, I suddenly lost access to my primary Gmail account, which caused me to go into a panic. That's when I received this message on Facebook, from someone I definitely do not know. Short-answer is, this person has locked me out of my own Gmail account, thus making me lose access to dozens of private conversations, extremely importante documents and backup copies of other members of family's projects, my own projects, and uncountable amounts of sensitive material that were stored in my Google Driv accounte, and, indirectly, this allowed him to gain access of multiple media and websites I'm subscribed to, such as Reddit, Coinbase (a crypto-website I was cashing in on), and multiple others. Not only that, throug my Google email he managed to gain access to my private business account, which is, needless to say, a potential life-ruining issue. Any attempts to regain access of any of those things through pretty much any means will immediately alert him, and the consequences are certainly going to be disastrous for my life.
His request to give me back my Gmail account is $45 on Paypal. I first reported this issue looking for help on the official VBW Discord, one of the few things he had no access to (mainly because I used a disposable email to sub to Discord). Multiple people gave me suggestions, and for that I'm immensely grateful. Ultimately, with Agnaa, Kepekley and some other people's suggestions, we arrived at the following possibilities:
You guys have no idea how it feels to be this helpless - any sort of bluff you may think this guy is pulling on me is legit. Trust me, I have checked. He has access to almost everything I have, and any slip-up could result in not just my, but also my family's very stability being destroyed. The only reason I still have access to my Messenger account is because he needs a way to communicate with me. If I do literally anything wrong, he can start sending malware to everyone in my friend list and to my distant Family embers, delete all my documents, **** up my private business email, etc. I am literally at the mercy of some random dude whose face I haven't even seen, all for ******* 50 US bucks.
I am in trouble.
Why?
Straightforward.
Yesterday night, I suddenly lost access to my primary Gmail account, which caused me to go into a panic. That's when I received this message on Facebook, from someone I definitely do not know. Short-answer is, this person has locked me out of my own Gmail account, thus making me lose access to dozens of private conversations, extremely importante documents and backup copies of other members of family's projects, my own projects, and uncountable amounts of sensitive material that were stored in my Google Driv accounte, and, indirectly, this allowed him to gain access of multiple media and websites I'm subscribed to, such as Reddit, Coinbase (a crypto-website I was cashing in on), and multiple others. Not only that, throug my Google email he managed to gain access to my private business account, which is, needless to say, a potential life-ruining issue. Any attempts to regain access of any of those things through pretty much any means will immediately alert him, and the consequences are certainly going to be disastrous for my life.
His request to give me back my Gmail account is $45 on Paypal. I first reported this issue looking for help on the official VBW Discord, one of the few things he had no access to (mainly because I used a disposable email to sub to Discord). Multiple people gave me suggestions, and for that I'm immensely grateful. Ultimately, with Agnaa, Kepekley and some other people's suggestions, we arrived at the following possibilities:
- 1. Contact Google's support team for help: I had done this the moment I lost access to the account. This went nowhere; the person who has hijacked my account changed my recovery email, and Google had recently shut down the Security Questions system (which I had never used to begin with), meaning I had pretty much no way to retrieve my account (other than via phone, which'd alert the hacker). This person also used a VPN to change his general IP to be the same as my area's, meaning they couldn't confirm the account was being accessed from a different location, either, so I ran into a dead end.
- 2. Pay the $45 Paypal cash, get the account back, and then charge the Money back: This possibility is the one I'm currently leaning towards. Apparently, Paypal has a good cashback system and, by doing this, I'd be losing nothing, since I'd be recovering the $45 and my account at the same time, as opposed to sitting and waiting like a duck. The hacker in question also seems to be a good-faith guy (ruining people's lives aside), since he could have very well charged much more ridiculous amounts, given his context of my situation.
You guys have no idea how it feels to be this helpless - any sort of bluff you may think this guy is pulling on me is legit. Trust me, I have checked. He has access to almost everything I have, and any slip-up could result in not just my, but also my family's very stability being destroyed. The only reason I still have access to my Messenger account is because he needs a way to communicate with me. If I do literally anything wrong, he can start sending malware to everyone in my friend list and to my distant Family embers, delete all my documents, **** up my private business email, etc. I am literally at the mercy of some random dude whose face I haven't even seen, all for ******* 50 US bucks.
I am in trouble.