skierboy718
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I recently sent an anonymous email from a Yahoo! account that I created using a nondescript name and no physical address. The message contained some damning information about the recipient's subordinates that would force the recipient to take action toward those individuals, but more importantly, it would give the recipient some notice about what would inevitably become public eventually. I sent the message anonymously to protect the well being of a friend who is also one of the recipient's subordinates. A day after sending the message, my friend told me that she was called into a meeting with her superior (the recipient of my email) and the recipient's superior. During the meeting, the two supervisors directly accused my friend of sending the message and maliciously attacked my friend's character for "ratting out" her peers. They also told her that they WOULD find out from the IP information (which indicated the message was sent from my home town) who sent the message and essentially bring them down legally.
Is there any legal issue with sending an email anonymously from an online email messaging system? In other words, can a person get in legal trouble for sending an anonymous email that simply contains damning information?
Can my friend take any action against her supervisors for accusing in a hostile way of sending the message even though they had knowledge that the message was actually sent from a computer several states away?
Need some help here. Thanks.
Is there any legal issue with sending an email anonymously from an online email messaging system? In other words, can a person get in legal trouble for sending an anonymous email that simply contains damning information?
Can my friend take any action against her supervisors for accusing in a hostile way of sending the message even though they had knowledge that the message was actually sent from a computer several states away?
Need some help here. Thanks.