Woman uses e-mail to set up co-worker

Opinion

Jan 31, 20051 min

A Burlington, Vermont, woman has been charged with identity theft after she allegedly set up an e-mail account to make it look as if her co-worker was stalking her.

Authorities say Bess Carney, 27, created an e-mail account under her former co-worker’s name to send harassing e-mails to herself. Police say Carney then forwarded those e-mails to friends “in an attempt to portray the former co-worker as unstable,” writes USA Today.

“A lot of people are doing this,” said Detective Kenneth Tisdel of Burlington Police’s High Technology Crimes Unit. “We will find out you did it no matter what you delete. The

evidence is there. We will find it.” He said the investigation included 80 hours of

computer forensic work.

Here comes CSI: Burlington.

Via USA Today

Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.