RE: Legal Email Issues - Dont shoot me :) -

[Benjamin Zachary]

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Oh man that would be great, we need an expert. Mail me off list and maybe I can fax you the documents. My lawyer has free reign, Im basically spending 20k to make her go away, so money is not an object at this point. We also got a letter from MS today explaining they have been informed that my company distributes illegal software. heh.. gee I wonder where that came from.  

 

We are going to try and find out which PC she recieved it from, and which account, she couldnt have deleted it, else, what good is it. So we are going to try and subpeona (sp?) all the computers she is in contact with, and then have someone go through them looking for the word document. When we pull the computer, Im going to run EZ-Recovery from Ontrack against it and try to pull it back and then we will press for purgery, and jail time. As far as the ISP, we own the mail server at the office, but anything they want would be there..

 

Thanks Bob!

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Legal Email Issues - Dont shoot me :) -

Just got back to work today. Got this at home, but couldn't reply (relaying turned off to prevent spamming)

This is the sort of work I do. If I were in your situation, I would let her introduce the evidence in court. In the mean time, you attorney should be able to obtain a copy of the 'e-mail'. With this copy, check the time and date it was supposedly sent. A summons should then be sent off to your ISP for connection details and mail routing records. This would certainly hurt her credibility and should make the rest of the procedings in court lean your way.

On top of all of this, I realize this is a civil proceeding, but purgery is purgery no matter what court it is in. By her entering this evidence and testifying to that fact that she received it, she would be purgering herself on the stand. This is punishable by jail time. If it gets into all that, a forensic investigation could be done to show that indeed she did not recieve the e-mail and that she typed it up herself.

Not sure where you live, but if I can do anything to help you in this, please let me know. I am a  computer forensic investigator in Kentucky and would be happy to lend a helping hand.

Ptl. Bob Couchman
Unit 57
Network Administrator
Computer Crime Section
Madisonville Police Department
99 East Center Street
Madisonville, KY 42431
(270) 821-1720
(270) 824-2115 (fax)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:05
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Legal Email Issues - Dont shoot me :) -

This is kind of a personal issue, but maybe someone could help me out as
it relates to legalaties for email. My x-wife typed stuff up in word to
look like an email and put threats and various obscenties in it. There
is no header info just says subject,to,from and the offending text it
could simply be typed in word (and was btw!:) ).
 
Anyhow, I went online to mail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, outlook,
outlook express, and aol.com and printed up an email from each to show
that this isnt what an email looks like. I also printed the header info
from both outlook and outlook express to show server transactions. My
lawyer is bringing in 'an email expert' to certify the email doesnt show
anything. Any ideas.. would be grateful
 
Although this is pertaining to my personal problem, it may be
interesting to know what the law is viewing as a valid email vs.
fraudlent email. I read up on some cases online but most dealt with
spammers and not holding an email for an assault or contract negotation.
 
Thx to any who have some ideas!
 
 

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