Identity Theft: The Shadow Campaign Against Me

The Digital Siege Begins

If you’d told me a few years ago that someone would try to steal my entire identity, my name, my digital footprint, even my future, I might have laughed. Today, I’m not laughing. I’m living it. It's a strange feeling knowing there is a doppelganger out there, pretending to be you. 

July 2024 -  Admission by email

It started with an email from L.O., a perfect example of a narcissist rewriting the narrative to paint herself as the victim while still trying to control me at the same time. In that email, amongst a host of threats and intimidation she admitted: “I have your address, your passport, I have everything of yours...”
She had everything she needed to hijack my identity. Barely three months after that email she and her accomplice Dom would launch a full scale attack on me, and it was during this attack that the attempted hijacking of my Gmail account happened.

November 2024: The Google Recovery Scam

At the height of the cyberattack, Google warned me that someone with an almost identical email address, grablerklaus@gmail.com, a perfect reversal of mine, was trying to make my account their recovery email. It was an audacious move, because, had I accepted in the confusion of the attack, they would have been able to take over my primary email account. I spotted the trap and declined to accept. 

I tried to reach out via email. No reply. I knew they were reading the emails as I could track the openings.

A Familiar Silence from Oswald Auto and Santander

By July 2025, the pattern had expanded. I received a message that my application for vehicle financing at Oswald Auto had been approved by Santander Consumer Bank. Once again, I had not applied. Once again, my surname and email was used by the same individual. And once again, the application appeared to originate from Germany. I sent formal emails to both companies explaining my prior experience and raising my concern that someone was abusing my identity.

This time, Oswald Auto GMBH replied. But I was quickly disappointed. They wrote back only to inform me that they had spoken to the client, and that he had explained it was just another mistake. Apparently he had given them an old email that happened to be my current one. (I have had my email  or 14 years and Google does not allow deleted email addresses to be reused.) No acknowledgment of the earlier fraud attempt. No expression of concern. No contact from Oswald Auto at all.

Again,  I could see that my emails were opened. But no one responded. Not Segmüller. Not Santander. Not Oswald Auto. And certainly not the man named Klaus Grabler or Nikolaus Grabler and who was using my email address! I know for a fact that everyone involved had read my emails and just chose not to respond to them. That is the state of their concern. 

Why This Matters—And Why I’m Making It Public

What began as a cyberattack escalated into a full-blown impersonation scheme involving:

• Attempted hijacking of my Google Gmail account

• Use of my name and email on an expensive furniture order

• A fraudulent application for vehicle financing again using my name and email

• A man who knew I was questioning his actions yet who refused to speak to me while having no problem telling the companies it was just a mistake.

And yet, when I attempted to bring this to the attention of the companies involved, I was met not with investigation or reassurance, but with silence. They read my messages. They know the facts. But they choose not to engage.