my gmail acount is hacked by one of my old friend who created the acount. but she is mis using my account.?

Question

I donot know my password now, and if i try to get new one, it is going to the alternate ID which was not mine but my friend's (hacker). My friend is cheating me mis using all my personal data which is very important personally and professionally
How can i get my acount blocked or my password back safely.
please help me.

Answer 1

Frankly, I don't think there is a way to block that account since it is a free account. So I guess the only thing you can do is to inform all your contacts that someone has been misusing your GMail account and any email/information coming from that should not be treated as coming from you.

You may also try contacting Google, but I don't think they'll do something about it. They simply can't block that based on someone's statement, it would involve an investigation which frankly the company wouldn't be willing to give time to.

Alternatively, if you are sure that your "old friend" is misusing your account, you should just inform the person and ask him/her to stop. If she's really a friend, she will heed. Otherwise, I'm not sure if there's some legal remedies for this. I guess it would fall under "misrepresentation" or something similar.

Answer 2

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Click the Forgot password link, and the mail server would ask you some question, which you would have answered while creating the mail id. If you give the correct answer, you will be provided with a new password, so that your mis using friend cannot access it.

But if you cant answer those questions, then now way just inform to all your contacts that your id has been mis used by some one.

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Answer 3

You can report abuse to Google. https://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?security=1&ctx=security