I’ve probably been at that link about 30 times over the last 2 days. It ultimately takes you to the password reset page which requires that you have access to your associated email which I don’t because this crazy bitch changed my associated email in FB.
FB is not offering me any other verification options.
Yep, 3 times now. And I’ve uploaded my passport. Here is the puzzling response I got:
What the fuck is that?!! Nothing indicating that they will process the report or review it in any way. It’s possible that there is some office looking into it, but that’s certainly a strange confirmation email if so.
(and of course that link takes me back into the cycle of trying to reset my password which I can’t do because I don’t have access to the registered email address.)
Exactly. The process they have is adequate to guard against those that click on “who is reading your profile” and get hacked. It is not designed against ex-girlfriends that you give all your email accounts and passwords to. I don’t even think the proper term is hacked.
Is there anyway you can get through all the layers and talk to an actual person at Facebook?
You’ll have to forgive me if I can’t recall. I filled out so many forms and went through so many links in the last couple of days I can’t remember which was which.
I filled out the form that the account was impersonating me which I think included an upload of my passport. I don’t remember what multiple choice options there were but if there was a field to give an explanation, I certainly gave as detailed a one as possible.
I also created a temporary account which allowed me to go onto the hacked profile and report it as impersonating myself. I also had friends do this, but when you choose the option that you are reporting on behalf of a friend, it basically tells you to tell your friend to file a report.
And yep, been through that “hacked” link over and over. It just leads back to the reset password process.
If someone can hack your email and FB password, they can do exactly what she did. All they have to do is be in long enough to change your FB info and confirm it in your email. I’m still completely puzzled why, at some point when I went through the process I was locked out for 24 hours, but she was able to get back in immediately.
There is the fantasy, and the source of all my frustration. If this is not completely impossible, it’s about as close as it gets. You can’t even send an email. In fact, there’s almost no evidence that there’s any actual people on the other end of any reports or attempts to contact them.
Is she still grabbing passwords from your computer? My low-tech solution to that would be to write any new passwords on a piece of paper and set your settings to not keep any password information on the computer (delete cookies constantly, etc.).
Then I put in my name, email, URL of the profile and upload my passport (and once my DL).
These are the only options that actually let you submit a report. Anything else takes you into one of the other dead ends I’ve been to.
Of course one problem is, it’s not technically true that this account is impersonating me. And what they’ll most likely do is send an email to the registered email address warning that person to take it down.
I have an acquaintance who called me with a similar problem a few months ago. Her psycho ex-boyfriend had set up a phony Facebook page in her name, i.e. pretending to be her. The page was replete with explicit photographs and embarrassing phony interests.
Neither the police or Facebook would help her at all.
In the United States, a lot of county prosecutors’ offices have special domestic violence units. I suggested she call one of them up. I’m not sure if it solved the problem but I think it was her best bet.
If that doesn’t work, here’s another thought:
Set up a “bait” bank account with a few hundred dollars in it and computer access. Arrange things so that your psycho ex-girlfriend “accidentally” obtains the access information to the account. Alternatively, arrange things so that she obtains your credit card info on a credit card with a low limit. Once she steals your money, then you file a complaint with law enforcement. They are a lot more likely to take it seriously.
Before you do this, check with a local lawyer to make sure it’s legal to set her up like this.