So I have this old MacBook...

The computer stopped working. At, one point during a protection from abuse order my ex put a Bluetooth on it that sent information to his work email. Then when I changed all my passwords, he changed all my passwords and made new passwords, cancelled all of my business auctions, tampered with my email changing the name of the email from my first and last name, to mr and mrs his last name. Only for some reason his work email came to my email address. Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. his last name and forwarded to some other people in his company.

So what I want to do since the police won't help ANY WOMAN THIS HAPPENS TO is get instructions for how to get emails and evidence of email tampering. Will it be ok if I do the work myself and learn to do that here? What do I need to know to do this? I want to be able to help other women in abuse keep their computers safe and how to prove their computers have been tampered with. I can practice on my computer. The statute of limitations is over for my case. Thank you for listening.

Messed up to hear,

First key answer here is awareness of the potential treat, How far that other side is willing to go, how many moneys want to pay to find out what you are up to:
In to-days evolving digital world we all should be more aware how easy it is to engineer someones life...

Awareness:
Always assume that someone can read your emails, the other person just need to pay the right person to do the enginering.
Solution is to never write something in a email that you dont want to get out, use the phone instead.

Phones also can be bugged quite easily trough being send a image which does malicious stuff, If something is really sensitive talk face to face.

Better yet, dont talk to anyone as someone wise once said:
If you can count, Count on youself.

Protection:
Use only services that have 2 factor autentication, Meaning a phone is required to get into a email or any service.

If paranoid,
Re-install Phone and Laptop/pc on a weekly basis.

Thank You. Awareness of the potential threat is something I am aware of that is why I am concerned. How far are they willing to go? Very far. I think they did most all social engineering among themselves, the four involved. I suspect at the time they were doing it themselves, and were beginners and discussed everything through email possibly making mistakes like the email that got forwarded to me of theirs instead of mine to them. They knew about social engineering.

When I called 911, my address had been changed. They had social engineered the home to be safe from attack by changing the address to the home so the police could not find us. These are not bright people. It took the police 45 minutes to get there when I had an emergency.

When a friend helped me, they deleted 10 years of work, her entire 501C3 website vanished. These people are cheap. They are not paying anyone for services, that would cut into their fun video game budget. Maybe they have friends, with VPN's that helped them before, but these people must be amateurs otherwise how did I as "non computer as you get" figure out this much.

Yes, keep nothing in writing is a very good creed to go by. I will find out about learning how to reinstall my phone and my laptop. I will look for services that allow 2 factor authorization. I'm hoping to learn to count on myself. I can start with learning to reinstall my phone and laptop. I made a C in Microsoft office class. Almost every word on this site, I have to google. It does not come easy to me. I will consider what you have said here.

That thing you want to do wouldn’t be easy even for someone who is comfortable with a computer. And you say you have to Google every term you are reading here

Can’t you find someone who would be willing to help you?

If you are on a Mac you can just search for clean install mac and there will be official guides from Apple. But if there’s something physical that he attached to your computer, he might still be able to continue logging what you are doing.

Can’t you take it to an Apple store?

What phone do you use?

Can’t you find someone who would be willing to help you? We are racking our brains to find family members who are better with computers than we are to ask for help from. I tried to contact the local computer expert in town but he said in order for information gathered off the old MACBOOK to qualify for evidence he needed some sort of instructions on the procedure to how that information would be gathered. There is currently no keyloggers. There was probably never a keylogger. It was probably a Bluetooth.

Can’t you take it to an Apple store? It is an old computer, with a corrupted hard drive or some other problem making the computer not turn on. When I arrived at the Domestic violence shelter, the computer was still working. The other residents were concerned, one looked at it and found a Bluetooth sending information from the computer to his email, she said his email then disconnected it right away because she said he could see our location if he was within 50 feet. He gave one of the children a smart phone and drove right by the shelter at one point, probably having them tell him where it was. The lady turning it off left me without proof that it was on there to begin with.

Law enforcement, local police, FBI and prosecuting attorney wouldn't touch it then or now. This piggybacking or tailgating (I learned words) allowed him access to all my accounts getting through all my security and passwords to forge authentication.

I use a Dell now.

What phone do you use? I use a Samsung Galaxy note 5 and a iPhone 8+

My mom is starting a cute little business and I hate to be the Debbie downer but my ex has a history of destroying my life online. He blackmailed her from her grandchildren for the past 5 weeks to try to get me to sign a court document. Her response was to throw herself into selling jewelry online. She is working really hard at it and now I feel responsible to protect her from the monsters in my life.

That probably means I need to learn how to protect myself while we are at it. As far as my life, they have already social engineered my life to destroy it. I'd like to see my mom be happy and have a little bit of peace so currently I am looking at low cost VPNs and I found out that a phone and a computer gets a VPN. I put turbo VPN for mobile onto my mobile and we are contacting relatives that know more than I do.

one thing i would reccomend for your mac book is to format the system with opencore big sur .

so if it doesn't turn on because the hard drive is corrupted would I buy a new hard drive?

Is it not odd that he would get me (that I've already explained) a used MacBook for Christmas anyway, a mere few months before everything hit the fan?

puentejo said:

one thing i would reccomend for your mac book is to format the system with opencore big sur .

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The MacBook, I just got it out. The charger doesn't seem to charge. The power button wont work, the light doesn't come on when I try to charge it.

if that happens its possible the batery. How old is the mac?

puentejo said:

if that happens its possible the batery. How old is the mac?

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Newbie
It is very old. I've been told it is both the power supply and the hard drive. The power supply is a 60 W Power adapter. AEO6000. The power supply does not light up when i plug the computer in. The battery is rechargeable Li ion battery pack. 100-1016-1004. Perhaps I fix these two things then can begin the deconstruction for proof of hacking as well as afterwards to be able to convert this computer to a Linux or whatever cool thing apples do.

Why no cops will help you?
what your ex done is illegal in most country. and it's criminal
and he canceled all your business auction. that mean you have monetary loss.

Elvlin said:

Why no cops will help you?
what your ex done is illegal in most country. and it's criminal
and he canceled all your business auction. that mean you have monetary loss.

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Here in America we have problems with our police and courts. This is probably one of many reasons people are concerned America might completely collapse.

That's depressing. What's not depressing is the computer I have in my hands. I'm going to figure out how to keep myself safe on the computer by deconstructing what they did to me, and learn open source. What else can a mom of a hacker who hates her Do? I'm turning to God and away from idols, I'm taking a stand against evil in my life and rooting it out. What else can I do? I have tried and the police won't help me then or now.

Axed said:

Here in America we have problems with our police and courts. This is probably one of many reasons people are concerned America might completely collapse.

That's depressing. What's not depressing is the computer I have in my hands. I'm going to figure out how to keep myself safe on the computer by deconstructing what they did to me, and learn open source. What else can a mom of a hacker who hates her Do? I'm turning to God and away from idols, I'm taking a stand against evil in my life and rooting it out. What else can I do? I have tried and the police won't help me then or now.

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Well you can start learning network security, and some knowledge about virus like trojan, or keylogger, and any other exploit also can be use.
if you still need to recover data from your old macbook, i recommend try contact https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w this ytber have shop in usa, and i see a few video where he succesfully recover data from macbook.

btw if it's me i will just return the favor to your ex. everyone have weakness. and no one is clean slate.

Elvlin said:

Well you can start learning network security, and some knowledge about virus like trojan, or keylogger, and any other exploit also can be use.
if you still need to recover data from your old macbook, i recommend try contact https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w this ytber have shop in usa, and i see a few video where he succesfully recover data from macbook.

btw if it's me i will just return the favor to your ex. everyone have weakness. and no one is clean slate.

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Thank you, I will contact him. I thought about returning the favor but decided I do not want to seek revenge.

Axed said:

Thank you, I will contact him. I thought about returning the favor but decided I do not want to seek revenge.

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i think it's not about revenge. but to show to other that they cannot mess with you. it's more self defense. still it's just my opinion
Btw hope it will work out for you.

Elvlin said:

i think it's not about revenge. but to show to other that they cannot mess with you. it's more self defense. still it's just my opinion
Btw hope it will work out for you.

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Right I hope to show them that for sure. The guy from that video on you tube does not do data forensics. He told me to contact Data Cillian in New York. I couldn't find a business by that name. I'm all for self defence. Could they be hacking into my phone? There are addresses and names and emails that are not mine coming up on my phone in the search bar.

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Right I hope to show them that for sure. The guy from that video on you tube does not do data forensics. He told me to contact Data Cillian in New York. I couldn't find a business by that name. I'm all for self defence. Could they be hacking into my phone? There are addresses and names and emails that are not mine coming up on my phone in the search bar.

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you should try to ask him the adress or contact, or you can find other that provide data forensics i tried google it and it show a lot of list.
Well better safe than be sorry, if your phone have unknown activity you should check does it have any weird apps, or you click weird link there. Or you can just factory reset it. btw if any of your device is hacked,you should think when it's hacked, since he still need some action from your side. either clicking a link, giving the hacker chance to access your device , fake apps, etc2 you should at least learn the fundamental so you can protect your privacy better.

Yes for sure. I'm working on learning fundamentals. Today I set up my mom's computer but it's stuck. on bios. and won't go past that point.