[ubuntu-in] OT: gmail sms recovery (was leina yar)

[Manish Sinha]

On 4/25/2010 11:43 AM, chaitanya ambaselkar wrote:
> @Ram,
>
> I know IP can be spoofed and the cracker may have done that but it 
> seems it is a dynamically assigned IP which is owned by Telekom 
> Malaysia Berhad. And a mobile device was used. And it was around 4:30 
> pm IST on 23rd April that account was cracked and within minutes I had 
> changed the password as well since then I have not seen any spams 
> being sent again.
> I wanted to contact the ISP on their abuse address but have no idea if 
> this has any legality with it. Have avoided but will take some advises 
> from some others who have knowledge about cyber laws as well.

Even though the IP address is dynamic, the ISP always keeps a track of 
which IP address is assigned to which customer. If you submit an abuse 
complaint, then probably they *may* help.
Don't expect much out of it since IP address ca be spoofed and an 
innocent person can be caught.


Chaitanya, also please avoid top-posting. Mallikarjun has already 
requested this before
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2010-April/007754.html

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Manish