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Originally Posted by kurichan
Something very similar happened to a colleague of mine. He had a BB, cancelled the account, but about a year later, got a call from the police in a different state. One of the officers there was getting my collegue's e-mail!
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Every blackberry has unique email address, like
. This is my guess of what may have happened:
Your colleague has name like Jim Smith and account like
He configured his other account(s) to forward emails to
He cancels blackberry account
He forgets to stop forwarding
For a year nothing did happen, as forwarded emails kept forwarded and get lost in cyberspace: account
is invalid, recipient is not found.
Whatever lock RIM has on creating accounts with previously used name expired in one year, and
jsmith is up to grabs.
Officer John Smith gets new blackberry and opens new blackberry account:
. He can do it as
is available.
Forwarded emails from Jim start to arrive to now valid
which belongs to officer John Smith
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Whatever the reason, that this can happen really hurts the security credibility of the BB.
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It is like someone moving to a new house but not updating everyone with new home address. Some letters will keep coming to old address.