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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:11AM (#33305841)
> "Let your mind run circles around your fears and you’ll find out how little that email account owns you."

This year I have recieved an email from a city councill if a city where I no longer live, that were about to sue me for underpaying some bill years ago.

If I followed your advise I would be on the hook for serous money and headache

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by jesuscript on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:43AM (#33306197)
That email could have been sitting in your junk folder for all you know. Even with access to your account it would have been a dumb way to serve someone a summons.

Following my advice or not, email could have still fucked you.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:41AM (#33306492)
it wasn't a summons, it was a pre-action letter.

I agree its dumb, but they didn't exactly ask my opinion, did they?

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by jesuscript on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:51AM (#33306563)
No, it sucks. A summons usually requires them to serve it for-sure somehow (in-person or someone in your home that accepts it for you).

They had no idea where you were, so you fell for the pre-action letter. They would have never gone through the trouble of where-in-America—are-you to sue you.

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