How to report a GMAIL user that has hijacked my account
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jdp1976
Dec 3, 2008, 6:48:41 PM12/3/08
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How can i do this and is it effective to report this user. I have
recovered control of my account but I feel that google should know
about this user's activities
recovered control of my account but I feel that google should know
about this user's activities
Nick Chirchirillo
Dec 3, 2008, 11:28:12 PM12/3/08
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May I ask how you know the user id of the person that took control of your account, then for whatever reason gave it back?--
-Nick
-Nick
Zack (Doc)
Dec 4, 2008, 8:14:49 AM12/4/08
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This link from the Help Center is for compromised accounts, but it's
mostly related to getting your account back. If you can login, it
basically just tells you to change passwords etc so it doesn't happen
again.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50270&topic=13262
--
Nicholas Chamfort - "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead
and tortures the living."
mostly related to getting your account back. If you can login, it
basically just tells you to change passwords etc so it doesn't happen
again.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50270&topic=13262
Nicholas Chamfort - "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead
and tortures the living."
jdp1976
Dec 4, 2008, 1:01:50 PM12/4/08
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this is someone i know and they told me about their activities. they
had accessed my account acted as me to send some emails and changed my
password so that I could not log in. thanks to google's protocols I
was able to recover my account, change my password, and set a new
security question.
On Dec 3, 10:28 pm, "Nick Chirchirillo" <nickma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> May I ask how you know the user id of the person that took control of your
> account, then for whatever reason gave it back?
>
had accessed my account acted as me to send some emails and changed my
password so that I could not log in. thanks to google's protocols I
was able to recover my account, change my password, and set a new
security question.
On Dec 3, 10:28 pm, "Nick Chirchirillo" <nickma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> May I ask how you know the user id of the person that took control of your
> account, then for whatever reason gave it back?
>
graham
Dec 4, 2008, 9:57:22 PM12/4/08
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Even goolge knows their name, it cannot do anything for you, right? Block them by the IP they used? Oh, forget it. I mean it's not possible that google blocks some person from accessing its gmail service forever just because that guy is known by google to have hijacked others' gmail accounts.
Xavier Mathews
Dec 5, 2008, 12:27:42 AM12/5/08
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You would have to look over the user agreement to find out if anything
can be done.
--
Xavier A. Mathews
Student/Browser Specialist/Developer/Web-Master
Google Group Client Based Tech Support Specialist
Hazel Crest Illinois
xavier...@gmail.com¥xavier...@hotmail.com¥trues...@yahoo.com
"Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself."
can be done.
Xavier A. Mathews
Student/Browser Specialist/Developer/Web-Master
Google Group Client Based Tech Support Specialist
Hazel Crest Illinois
xavier...@gmail.com¥xavier...@hotmail.com¥trues...@yahoo.com
"Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself."
miran osabnik
Dec 5, 2008, 3:34:28 AM12/5/08
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To protect your self in the future (preventing this to hapen aggain), you should never chose a password or security question that any one could quess. Not eaven your friends. Im prosuming you didnt just tell him your password.
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