

This is also how you can wipe out a business, by doing this persistently. It’s part of how I got wiped out professionally. It’s also how you can lose most of your friends. As people can’t see the person who is doing this to you (and to them), you can then become the personification of the evil that you are being subjected to. I’ve had several emails from people who claimed that I was accusing them of being my hacker, even though all I had indicated was that my incoming emails were getting messed with. Someone who wrote to me as Steven Hoops from a live (Microsoft) address, claiming that he was using a pseudonym to protect himself, once explained to me, completely unasked, how one does this, before I knew that it was happening, and this was in response to an email I had sent to a very specific person who went around accusing me of all sorts of things but who was actually doing all those things himself, together with his brother. This was in early 2009 (possibly late 2008).
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