Re: [clug-talk] Help with Gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Carter
Bill, Thanks for your suggestion. I'll forward it to my friend. Robin On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Bill Rayment wrote: > There is nothing real fast when dealing with a giant. > I have had great success with getting Gmail help on a paid account and no > success with Gmail free account. >

[clug-talk] Help with Gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Rayment
There is nothing real fast when dealing with a giant. I have had great success with getting Gmail help on a paid account and no success with Gmail free account. If your friend needs an account right away I suggest as someone above as done - just register a new one. Further to this - if the fellow

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Scott Thistle
http://www.google.com/m/search?client=ms-palm-webOS&channel=bm&q=gmail%20support -- Sent from meOn 17 Dec 2010 9:02 a.m., Richard Carter 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 gm

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Mark Carlson
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 Fr

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Greg Saunders
Hi Richard, have you tried https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=acc_reco&ara=2&ctx=acc_reco&rd=1 yet? He will obviously need a working email somewhere. @terr Dude, not helpful to provide the "short" answer and neglect to provide a "long" one. That kind of ans

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
One of my faculty members used Gmail for personal email and had her account locked. I'm not sure why. She ended up abandoning that address and starting over with another email provider after failing to get any recourse from Google. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread terr
Obviously the short answer is to not use gmail. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:02:04AM -0700, Richard Carter 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

[clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Carter
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