There are many variations on this, each with a unique solution. Many are documented in the "Help" section on Gmail (upper right corner, near the Sign Out link.)
Search for "account compromised" and go from there. If you have already done this, then I'm not sure what else to try. -Mark C. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Richard Carter <carter.r....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > This is somewhat off topic but I hope you can forgive that. > > A friend has been the victim of a scam involving gmail: emails were sent out > asking for loans to help the victim get home from England. Fortunately, I > noticed that the email address, purported to be the victim's, was not quite > correct so I didn't fall for it. > But the problem is that the victim's google account has been frozen so he's > unable to get access to email or to any of his contacts. Attempts to > contact google have been unsuccessful. > I would appreciate any suggestions for a solution. > Merry Christmas > Robin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
