How can my friend prove his email was hacked and used to send emails not from him?
My good friend has an Tmobile G1 (Google Phone) and his Gmail was somehow hacked by his verifiable insane ex who proceeded to send emails of inappropriate pictures of him out to jobs he has applied to, personal contacts, and his current job. She also sent a lot of fake stuff, like requesting to be fired from his current job. He is new at his current job and they do not know what he has been going through though she calls and harasses his job. Now the job wants him to “prove” the emails were not from him. What can he do to “prove” it?
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This is something he needs to talk with his lawyer about, and get a lawyer if he doesn’t have one. The company should not be asking him to prove this kind of stuff, nor should he have the burden of doing so placed on him when he likely doesn’t have the skills to do so, nor should he respond without consulting someone who doesn’t have a vested interested in firing him.
If he has to ask, he probably doesn’t have the skills to do it. He needs to hire an expert in computer forensics and a lawyer—and while he’s at it, he needs to file for a restraining order against his ex.
Check the sent items folder
His email address was probably being spoofed if there are no weird sent messages.
I would think if your friend contacted Tmobile, they would have some way of tracking the origin of the emails, and then have the evidence needed to prosecute this person, or at least prove to the people that got them that they were done with malice by someone other than himself.
I don’t use a phone to send email, so I don’t know if there is an ip adress that can be looked up or not, but his provider can probably look into it for him.
Well Tmobile did not do anything for him, and he did end up getting a termination notice since he was like an at-will contracted employee.
Secure your technological identities people!
I am unsure of how relevant this is but go to this page and scroll down to the bottom of the page. There are answers how to specifically deal with spoofed Gmail addresses. It is apparently illegal to send emails without permission to use spamees address in the from box (if that made any sense). So, start by reporting this.
You can’t. Even if you can proved that your system was accessed from another ISP address you still cannot prove that someone else did it. People often attempt to wriggle out of trouble by claiming to have been hacked – it is becoming commonplace. It is quite easy for someone skilled to hack Hotmail or Gmail, but as it is also quite easy to used servers in any part of the country or the world to access a webmail account, it means little in the way of a defence.
sounds like a job for the FBI
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