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by sebkomianos
4863 days ago
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I upvoted and tweeted about this just so we raise the possibility that you get a good solution to your problem. Even if you manage to reach Google and they somehow delete that one email from that guy's inbox, how can you know that he hasn't already saved the information? So, instead of trying to solve this from the gmail side, why don't you look at the other one? Contact your bank, let them know and have your card numbers and passwords changed, start the process of getting a new passport maybe and in general "protect" yourself by making the information that guy has useless. But I agree on the "relax" part too, I mean, how many of us would take such an email seriously? Chances are he/she thinks "Oh, those Nigerian Princes are advancing their techniques..", laughs at it and marks it as spam. If it reaches someone, that is - and it's quite possible it doesn't. But, yeah, my advice would be to let everyone know and eventually make all that information useless. Good luck and let us know if something happens! :) |
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my family is all in different countries so the passport renewal situation is difficult at the time. but we will definitely do that asap. finances are less of a concern, no CC info was passed along - it's more being prone to ID theft.
about the inbox, well in an ideal world, we could make a case to google to delete the emails. but the more realistic hope is to reduce the uncertainty in the situation - is the stranger an active user or is it one of those dying accounts? from which country?
anyway thanks all for the suggestions. i will try to communicate some of this perspective and optimism to my mom over the phone.