Email Defamation

These days our fingers fly over the keyboard and we use our computer for a lot of our personal and business correspondences. This is convenient for ‘staying in touch’ but it can become a big legal problem when a little old spat becomes a heated, defamatory debate – or worse. Savvy email users create anonymous email addresses, Facebook accounts and blogs to say just about anything they want about anyone.

At some point in time, these written communications cross a specific threshold, and when they do, they can become email defamation.   Figuring out if the threshold has been crossed may seem difficult, but there are some specific questions that – if you answer yes to them – indicate that you have been subject to email defamation. These questions include:  ‘were the statements made false’ and ‘was the material visible by more than ten people’. Finally, if you are accused in an email of the following, you have been defamed:

Being sexually deviant;

Committing a crime;

Being incompetent to perform your profession; and/or

Having a horrible disease

Although there are other criteria to determine if you have fallen prey to email defamation, analyzing the information given above will point you in the right direction when it comes to knowing if the person writing to you is simply exercising their right to freedom of speech or if they are a menace and guilty of defamation of your character..

Once you suspect that you are indeed If you are indeed receiving email defamation, there are many routes you can go to take care of the problem. You can simply find the culprit (not always easy) and communicate to them that you know who they are and that you are planning to take action against them. This is the gentlest action. The harshest is to begin a lawsuit.

As hinted above, identifying the defamer is not always an easy task. Reputation Defense Online, a cyber investigation firm, specializes in guiding its clients through what can be quite a twisted road.  A bit simplistically stated, this company will :

       1.           
Identify the best course of action to stop the defamation. This is done via a free initial consultation.

       2.           
Actively investigate to find out exactly who the attacker is.

       3.           
Put the culprit on official notice. If your goal is simply to get the attacks to stop, this may as far as you need to go.

       4.           
Collect and compile data should a lawsuit become necessary.

       5.           
Actually begin the legal process by filing a lawsuit.

       6.           
Attempt to ‘settle’ with the attacker, if possible.

       7.           
Follow through and actually complete the lawsuit.

It may seem that most of these action can all be performed by just setting your nose to the grindstone and getting started but do not be fooled. The landscape of email defamation is quite a twisted road. So if you are experiencing email defamation, do the best you can to nip it in the bud by visiting the cyber investigation professionals at
www.ReputationDefenseOnline.com. You will be glad you did!

STOP Internet Defamation

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