On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:23:14AM +1000, david wrote: > [ .. ] >> I'm on Darren's address book, so I got the scam request for cash >> from his account. It looked perfectly genuine at first although the >> return address was dagibbs@Ymail instead of gmail. > > This is the thing. Surely all a gmail users correspondents > can vouch for the user. This should be enough for them. > Particularly gmail correspondents who have archived mail. > That can't be faked. Or would be very hard to fake.
Apparently, not in Google's books. > Matt, who knows someone similarly affected. Your friend is like me - S.O.L. >From what I've read, even if you *do* manage to convince Google you own the account, the hacker deletes all the mail in it anyway, and harvests the contacts before deleting them too - so you get nothing back anyway. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
