I've been cyber stalked and harassed for months by 2 individuals that found me on Reddit. help.
Location: IL. abusers are in CA and OK. This is honestly gone way too far. I am a designer with many years of experience, and A junior level designer accused me of stealing her project and feeding it to AI. The only similarity between our work is a duotone filter, which is a common design element I have used for years prior, that i used in only one image on one project. I offered full documentation of my workflow as proof and she refused to look at it.
after losing my job, i found a design subreddit and joined their associated discord. this is where this nightmare started, for context. Her and her friend have been abusing me ever since, I found out she was spreading this fake information about me to others, and making posts about it online without naming me. This has been going on for months now since March.
I have all of their accounts and contact information completely blocked but the ongoing abuse keeps happening. I have called their local police and that was not helpful. I have tried to file a restraining order but I need to go in person to do that so the online request was rejected. I'm not even sure what the restraining order would do because they can still continue to harass me online anonymously.
The friend of hers has so far, made a viral Reddit post/comment about me on the sub Reddit, attached my personal information in it, and the lies associated with it. He has also sent me extremely crude anonymous emails as well, tried to hack and lock me out of my Instagram account multiple times now, and signed me up for extremely abhorrent email subscriptions back to back. More than 30.
This is somehow now escalating even though I have not been in contact with them because now they are signing me up and creating accounts in my name for illegal adult websites such as bestiality and incestuous website accounts. Both of which are illegal in the United States.
I have previously asked them to stop and they were taking abuse tactics against me by gaslighting and saying that I'm crazy and also saying that I'm harassing them and to not contact me and then threatening me. all for asking all for asking if they can please leave me alone. All I wanted to do was show her proof of my workflow so they could finally leave me alone but I don't even see a way that this could even stop.
so far they have Sent anonymous harassing emails for months, doxxed my website on Reddit causing a viral harassment campaign,Attempted to hack my Instagram multiple times, Signed me up for dozens of spam mailing lists, Created fraudulent accounts in my name on illegal adult websites with degrading username, and. Threatened to press charges against me when I defended myself
She has visited my website 163+ times this year obsessively monitoring me. Both of them I have their IP address, and I am able to see them viewing my website multiple times a week.
I have filed an IC3 federal complaint and a Stalking No Contact Order that did not go through so far and also contacted authorities. The harassment continues despite this. I need advice on what to do next. Please help
Posted Jun 24, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC