Sir

Some  unknown person, using my e-mail Id namely
deshpandesy@hotmail.com / and my password, (God knows how)  sent a
very nasty, humiliating and insulting  e-mail to my close relation in
Abu Dhabi - some time in May/June 2005, which resulted in severing our
relations.  Since this identity theft, our relations have come to a
dead end.   This person instead of showing the contains of this e-mail
and finding the truth without confronting,  insulted me and severed
our relations.  On the same day in the fit of anger, this person 
DELETED the e-mail from the computer.

Now I wish to retrieve this e-mail in order to trace the real identity
thief.  Please Guide me as to how to get the copy or to retrieve this
e mail sent in May/June of this year to Abu Dhabi. I am willing to pay
a reasonable fee for this job.  Will ?Hotmail? authorities help me to
get hold of this e-mail and trace the Culprit?  If you need additional
information I will provide it without reservation.

Any help given to me will be deeply appreciated. I request you to
treat it as confidential.

Suresh Deshpande

I believe that your best course of action is to persuade the recipient in Abu D
to consider installing a file receovery utility to help you plead your
case.  It *may* still be possible to retrieve the email if it has not
yet been over-written.  You see, a file is "logically" deleted but is
not "physically" deleted until that area of the disk is
over-written---hours, days, or years later.

Normally a utility such as this is installed on the target machine. 
It tries to locate files/emails that are physically there and still
recoverable.  If the file/email you want really is recoverable, you
must then buy the product to complete the actual file/email recovery. 
But normally the target machine is one that you have control over--not
a machine overseas with a "hostile" owner.

First of all, somebody can send a mail in your name without accessing
your hotmail account/password by using those SMTP servers which donot
authenticate users or provide unrestricted relaying...

Secondly the method of retreiving the deleted mail now depends on the
receipent's mail type... If he is accessing mail in a POP3 mail
client... only place where it can be found is "deleted items" folder.
If it's a web mail account then somewhere in trash it can be found...

But the best effort on your part would be to make the other person
believe that your name on mail doesn't mean that mail's sent by you...
may be you can do this by sending a mail to him with his name as
sender's... For sending such a mail search web for "free relay SMTP
server"

Best of Luck !!!

Check with the iSP carrier and ask if active archiving  is used to
create a copy of the text mail. Most email records are kept up to 2
years and then dumped chronologically.  Was the account dialup LAN, or
other sytle, since the protocols do not just hookup to anything.  The
use of the ISP to launch an investigation is determined only by your
resolve.  Have you contacted the authorities in this matter, have you
filed a criminal report to start the ball rolling.  Over 90 days has
passed and you still have time.  Hustle up if you are going to
complete this.

1) File a criminal report with the "proper" (municipal, state,
federal, or international), law enforcement authorities

2) Use the criminal incident /reporting photocopy to send to the ISP
of your relation's internet

3) Request a format of communication.  You can not just go up and say
"I did not send that email, who was it?  I demand to know, since it
was identity theft and it has hurt relations with relatives."  You
must use tact and with the proper criminal incident reporting and a
proper letter of introduction will usually allow an ISP to surrender
the critical information if it is as you say to law enforcement
officials to further their investigation.