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About 15 days ago, I went to sleep after meditating as usual and when I woke up the next day and checked my fiverr chatbox, hundreds (probably) of spam messages were sent to the chatboxes of fiverr sellers all over the world. I calmly sent a direct message to hundreds of fiverr sellers saying 'I think I've been hacked and please do not do anything that is written in the image I sent you'. About 20% of them just reported me. 

I was a top seller and a storyboard artist on fiverr. 

My account was not suspended even though a significant number of people reported me. 

There was a significant amount of money in my personal balance. 

I quickly changed my password (I thought it was a natural thing to do. If I could log out someone who was accessing my fiverr account from somewhere else, I should have done it) 

And I wrote about my current situation on the fiverr 'help' site. Soon after, my account was disabled. 

For a few days, about every 3 days, the fiverr support team asked me to take screenshots of all my current devices that I have virus scanned, so I sent them. 

They haven't responded for 10 days after sending them. 

From my perspective, since I had a lot of money in my account (obviously, the first thing I should have done was withdraw the money to my paypal account, but I didn't think of that), 

Here are some tips that I hope people who read this will get enlightened. 

1. Change your password regularly.
 2. If something happens, press the withdraw button first.
 3. You have to endure account disabled, maybe long time
 
And plus one, I told the security answer, and I think It will be correct. but fiverr support team doesn't let me know It is right or not.
 
I hope I can get back with good news
 
😄 

After I fell asleep my account was spammed to random people and now I desperately need a response from fiverr support team.

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