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Comment from mildred castillio on 2008-12-23

2008-12-23T08:26:19Z

someone using my name and create a friendster account..and use my picture as her primary photo.and
and post a shoutout with bad thing about me..how can i cancell it..

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Comment from Kandy Kirtley on 2006-08-18

2006-08-18T17:36:05Z

someone has created a myspace with my daughters picture and information. My daughter has tried to get it deleted, but with no luck, it is password protected. how can we find out who created it and how to get it deleted? My daughter is only 15.

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2006-08-01

2006-08-01T20:02:35Z

Probably the most important thing you need to do (and which Leo neglected to mention) is make sure that when you cantact the mail provider, you provide the full headers of the e-mails being sent so they can track down the sender.

If I know your e-mail address, I can easily put it in the "From" line of my e-mail, so it looks like it's from you, even if I'm sending it to you. Or I can make one up. I can send e-mail that looks like it comes from fribblegrotz@yahoo.com, even though there may be no such address.

You'd have to check the mail headers to see that it actually got sent from a Comcast customer via Comcast's mail servers, and didn't go through Yahoo at all.

Now, that's not to say that mail headers cannot be faked. But that takes a much higher level of sophistication.

If you're not providing Yahoo copies of the mail with full headers, then they won't do anything. At most, they'll tell you they need copies with full headers.

I'm sure Leo has posted bits about how to read headers (and how to view them so you can read them) previously. Check them out.

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