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Comment from Melanie Blakeman on 2011-06-25

2011-06-26T03:22:46Z

It took several months, but the strategy I outlined above was successful.

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Comment from Melanie Blakeman on 2011-02-26

2011-02-27T04:47:24Z

I am a avid internet user, so I found out accidentally that you can bury the google listings of the fake accounts so many pages into google that people never get to them!

The accounts you use often, will normally come up first. Your entries on other people's blogs will list. Your comments on the sites of your favourite politicians and newspaper articles will list. Your amazon.com and other shopping accounts will list unless you turn this feature off. Your tweets lifted from twitter and put on other people's sites will list. Your own blog will list and every topic in your own blog will list if you keep it active.

To make a long story short, your genuine activity on the net will supersede any fake activity.

I let sites and accounts go dormant and to my dismay the fake or defamatory accounts started to rise in the listings.

I'll let you know if they go back down after I open everything up and start using it.

This is not a solution for people who don't like to be online, but if you are online a lot anyway, I believe this will work well.

Who searches 10 pages in on google, and how much weight will they give to a listing that far back, that contains false information, after they have scrolled through pages of what is true?

on the other hand...

If someone has created a situation whereby you can be put in grave physical danger, law enforcement may intervene.

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Comment from Christopher on 2010-10-28

2010-10-28T23:28:23Z

any word on how to find out if someone has created an email account falsley. Someone has made one for my wife I was wondering if there is anything she can do about it. She thinks it might be her exhusband

Not really. If they're doing something illegal with it then of course you can contact the authorities, but the best you can hope for is to contact the ISP or email provider and see if they can help in some way. Usually they cannot.

29-Oct-2010

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Comment from Chris on 2010-06-03

2010-06-03T10:56:11Z

Someone has set an account up using my email address and my details on Plenty of Fish.com. I have no idea how they got all these details and also they used a password ive used before in the past. Do you know how they did this and is there anyway i can find out who it is?

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Comment from ereylyn fernandez on 2009-03-08

2009-03-08T14:40:25Z

thank you so much for giving a time.but i need your help leo,when i report it to all the sites witch he make my account with my name and pics on it,he will make an account again.i dont know what to do,i need your help desperately...

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Comment from martha hope on 2009-02-13

2009-02-13T23:39:37Z

someone created a gmail account using my husbands name, and with all of his information. We have had about 50 calls saying that he is inquireing on different insurance, moving, and investing. That was bad enough, but now we are getting calls from Sex stores and XXXvideos. Is there any way that we can find out whose computer or who created this address. I'm afraid there going to get us in trouble.

If a crime's been committed, then law enforcement. Otherwise, I know of no way to resolve this.

- Leo
14-Feb-2009

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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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