Sorry for your loss, I can relate to this in a way.
Then again you must've been desperate for the truth about your husband for you to go this far, as in registering to a "hacking forum" and funding someone via Bitcoins.
As others said above, the user in question likely did "an exit scam", meaning he took multiple requests from different users leaving all of them undone and is now just waiting for the banhammer and milking users as much as he can before that.
In case you are interested how "the hacking" actually would've worked, there is no such thing as "some tech guy typing
something to a command line interface" as you see in the movies, instead its usually as simple as contacting the customer support and trying to negotiate your way in by fooling the representatives at the other end of the line.
So it's basically guessing some key information about the victim and then attempting to use that info in order to "recover" the account. Assuming it's even successful, the password is usually "reset", meaning the owner of the account gets locked out and notified about the change.
The second way would be that, "the hacker" gives you an executable malware which he tells you to run in the victim's device that's being used to access the website. Shortly after "the hacker" is able to see everything that's being typed to the computer and he would be able to give the passwords to you. But he'd be able to see everything and anything that is in the computer, and usually it's not safe to use anymore after that, meaning he could easily add it to some botnet or send spam mail via it to make more money out of you.
Whatever he promised you, I can assure that there is literally no other ways to do it. And I suggest you give up. You will likely get many messages now promising you everything from earth to moon. However let me give you one tip of advice for free.
Those who were scammed once, usually get scammed twice. This happens when the victim responds to another people's message and takes the hook again.
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Thank you so much for your reply and advice. It's one of the most honest replies I've got on here. Really appreciate you taking the time
Thanks again
(Feb 26, 2016 02:22 PM)Grimzyy Wrote: You could do it yourself and save $150, installing a local keylogger takes 10 minutes. Even try checking the saved passwords on his browsers OP.
Tried to do that but he has password protected his laptop so can't get through that either. Google chrome definitely has the facility where I can look up the passwords stored but again I have to pop in the password to the gmail account, which I don't know!
But thanks for the reply