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I can verify that it's true and it is a sad story. I've spent hours today trying to help her, I am hoping someone in this community can actually help because tr

by ohashi 5y ago

I can verify that it's true and it is a sad story. I've spent hours today trying to help her, I am hoping someone in this community can actually help because traditional processes are clearly failing her.

ALittleLight 5y ago
How do we know A) You aren't part of the scam. (Including the possibility your HN account was stolen) B) You haven't been fooled by the scammer as a first step. For what it's worth my suggestion would be focus on getting home first (contact embassy) and then contact a lawyer to see if you can use the courts to force a resolution from Google.
- ohashi 5y ago
  A) What scam do you think is potentially going on here? Getting into a random gmail that the person controls the old phone connected to it and all the pictures on the account happen to be of them and their child? How can I prove I'm not part of some scam in your mind? I can't. I can't disprove a negative. I'm easily Googleable if you're worried about my HN account being compromised, can find half a dozen other ways to reach me if you look (Reddit, Twitter, Github, many emails, forums, etc), feel free to check in on me. You at some point have to either believe something or not. Short of publicly doxxing everything - which is generally frowned upon - and even I'm sure there still would be skeptics. B) See A. This is a personal friend who I spent multiple hours on video chat trying to help her recover her digital effects and trying to get access back into her account fully and ownership of it. She needs help reaching someone at Google / some authorities who can actually help. They can verify her information and story. They can see the email being reset to a BS gmail account with typos in it which looks like a phishing email. They can see her phone number was attached to the account. She has identification. Alternatively maybe someone has dealt with this scenario before and knows ways people have recovered from this type of ordeal that know other avenues to help.

by ohashi 5y ago

ALittleLight 5y ago

How do we know A) You aren't part of the scam. (Including the possibility your HN account was stolen) B) You haven't been fooled by the scammer as a first step. For what it's worth my suggestion would be focus on getting home first (contact embassy) and then contact a lawyer to see if you can use the courts to force a resolution from Google.

ohashi 5y ago
A) What scam do you think is potentially going on here? Getting into a random gmail that the person controls the old phone connected to it and all the pictures on the account happen to be of them and their child? How can I prove I'm not part of some scam in your mind? I can't. I can't disprove a negative. I'm easily Googleable if you're worried about my HN account being compromised, can find half a dozen other ways to reach me if you look (Reddit, Twitter, Github, many emails, forums, etc), feel free to check in on me. You at some point have to either believe something or not. Short of publicly doxxing everything - which is generally frowned upon - and even I'm sure there still would be skeptics. B) See A. This is a personal friend who I spent multiple hours on video chat trying to help her recover her digital effects and trying to get access back into her account fully and ownership of it. She needs help reaching someone at Google / some authorities who can actually help. They can verify her information and story. They can see the email being reset to a BS gmail account with typos in it which looks like a phishing email. They can see her phone number was attached to the account. She has identification. Alternatively maybe someone has dealt with this scenario before and knows ways people have recovered from this type of ordeal that know other avenues to help.