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Long story short: This year I made an MVP for a Israeli/Brazilian guy without getting paid (plus having actually paid other developers to help me as well). Later I realized I was not the only victim (the guy is a serial con man in the startup scene, with several fake investment news all around the web), so I exposed the fraud on facebook, mentioning every person he has tricked before. From that moment on, he couldn't fool anyone anymore. He swore revenge.
Now, "Someone" has discovered my girlfriend is a former porn star and has made a video with mixed content (old porn video + pictures of us) and spread all over the startup scene (mostly facebook groups and directly to many company emails). This attack has made my life a living hell yesterday, with over 14K views and actually having me hospitalized.
I can already point he's most likely the author (as dozens of other startup scene people here in Brazil can say this as well) with many indirect proofs, I just don't have the IP proof coming from Facebook/Google. Also, he is in California now, so I don't even know if I should start looking at any USA (FBI or what?) forms.
I've asked Facebook to take down the fake profile (and lots of friends helped report too), but it's still up. Same thing with the blogspot account holding the pictures and video. The fake gmail account used to spread the video via email (and the Dropbox account used for this) is still active, too.
HN, what should I do??? Where should I start?
ps: this story is pretty real and you can check me out and contact me at roberto.cr
(ie: you sell items you'd rather not to be linked to you in any way. ie2: it's a grey area business, such as porn sites).
Please explain your use case (whether you do B2C and/or B2B). Any advice is welcome... Thanks!