➡️ It's hard enough to experience the loss of a friend or a loved one. To get email from them thereafter can be very disturbing.

➡️ Email from the deceased
Receiving emails from a deceased person’s account can be distressing. This can occur due to a hack or from spam spoofed to appear as if it’s from the deceased. Legality isn’t clear, but you can try contacting the email provider, ideally with a death certificate, to close or secure the account. In the meantime, setting up an email filter to delete the messages might be the most practical solution. It’s also a reminder to arrange emergency access to your own digital world to prevent similar situations in the future.

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Chapters
0:00 Email from a Dead Person
1:30 Accessing the account
2:00 Potential cause 1 A random hack
3:20 Potential cause 2 A targeted hack
4:15 Potential cause 3 Random spam
5:00 Potential cause 4 Targeted spam
6:25 Other clues
7:00 Legal?
8:20 Closing the account?
10:15 Frustrating, but pragmatic solution

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