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Recently a situation came up at work where someone sent an anonymous email to our entire customer base slandering my boss. Without getting into the details of it, and because of the position in my company, I know these accusations to be 100% false.
The email came from a private domain created on Nov 9. 1) What can be done legally at this point to defend my boss? 2) What can be done (legally) to track down the individual who purchased this domain?
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11-12-2009, 09:20 AM | #2 |
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11-12-2009, 09:43 AM | #3 |
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email, pls
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You're like OJ, man! Do the deed, then lead the crusade to find the criminal. That's awesome!
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I'm no lawyer, I would hope your company has one for this case, but first thing I would do is do a whois on the domain to see if they were stupid enough to register it to themselves and have their name listed.
Did the email just libel your boss or did it include the company? Depending on what was said and that it was sent to customer's of the company, I'd imagine it would be attacked from 2 fronts.
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It libeled my boss, a Board of Director (specifically named) and our entire Board (named as a group). We think we know who it is, and if it's that person or one of their cronies, it complicates this quite a bit.
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On a separate note, it makes me giggle that someone asking about libel in email has a big ole 'Fuck Ted Ginn' on his signature. (Not that I think that is libel, I just find it humorous)
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LOL ... it's for sure not Libel that I think Tedd Ginn is a shitty receiver, cause that's the truth (funny thing is I can't see my signature most of the time ) |
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11-12-2009, 10:41 AM | #12 |
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Ohhh, haha. Yeah, I don't think I should post it, too much confidential stuff. |
11-12-2009, 11:16 AM | #13 |
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Well it is a fact that Al Davis sucks ass and is a terrible owner, so I don't really see much libel in that...
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11-12-2009, 12:04 PM | #14 |
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Playing devil's advocate here:
If someone is expressing their opinions and not as fact, I think it would be hard to pursue the libel angle. I also think there are certain criteria that it has to meet to be considered libel (not 100% sure on this). It may piss you off and may seem bad and the way it was done looks bad, but, was it really libel? However, how did this person get everyone's email addresses? If they were obtained via hacking or some other non legal way, that could be something to add to this person's newly found problems.
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Yeah, it was (imo) Libel. None of what was written was stated as opinion, it was straight out accusatory of "illegal" activity and "theft/stealing" as well as saying some documents were "fraudulent" and "missuse of credit cards." Since I'm the accountant for the company, I know for a fact that none of this is true. As far as the list ... if it's who we think it is, then that person would have had access to the list (legit) at some point in the last couple of years. |
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That's cool. Like I was saying, just playind devil's advocate. Dang, was hoping that they did not have a legit reason to have access to that list as that would be some icing on the cake.
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11-12-2009, 01:16 PM | #17 |
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Whois on the domain, but you can put anything there. You need lawyers to get in touch with the domain registrar for that domain and see if they'll roll on a client. If he was dumb enough to pay by his own credit card, case closed.
If he obscured the payment or even went the identity theft route it will be very difficult. You should also be able to check the header information on the email to see the name and ip of the sending mail server. Track that back to a host/ISP, either way you'll need to have the lawyers knock on their doors. An ISP can tell you exactly who it belongs to, hosting facility will rely on billing info and access logs. Just free flowing and likely poorly written ideas. Last edited by jeff061 : 11-12-2009 at 01:21 PM. |
11-12-2009, 01:28 PM | #18 |
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The idiot should have just sent it from a gmail account from a wireless hotspot somwhere. So I'm sure they haven't jumped through hoops covering their ass.
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Most companies I have worked for have considered email address of customers to be proprietary information. A customer list for a company is usually considered property of the company and I would think that using it in this way could be considered theft (just like if they stole the secret formula to bushes baked beans). I might be way off base here as I don't know any information about your company and I am not a lawyer.
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