This is the email you get when Google agrees to give the Feds access to your email:

44  2013-08-14 by [deleted]

uslawenforcement@google.com

Dear [redacted]@gmail.com,

Google has received legal process for information related to your account in a matter issued by the United States Attorney's Office.

To comply with the law, Google may provide responsive documents pursuant to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. See 18 U.S.C. ยง 2701 et seq.

For more information about the legal process seeking your Google account information, you may wish to contact the party seeking this information at:

[redacted]

Unfortunately, Google is not in a position to provide you with legal advice or discuss the substance of the process in our possession.

If you have other questions regarding this matter, we encourage you to contact your attorney.

Regards,

Google Inc.

Legal Investigations Support

Edit: Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OYgnh7a.jpg

25 comments

Dear god man, archive your freakin emails! 14k in the inbox?

Damn. Somebody doesn't check their G-mail too often.

...or something...

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What do you think that you might be under investigation for?

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Damn man. Well I'd sure like to know. PM me if you feel like you want to drop a hint. Check my post history to verify my character.

Good luck :(

Dude, you're fuckin boned... If you need a new ident I can tell you where to go and what to do...

Pm me details please?

I'd deeply appreciate some advice too.

In most cases they are forbidden from revealing the intelligence gathering to the target.

In what situations wouldn't you tell me about a request for my information?

We can't notify you if, for example, your account has been closed, or if we're legally prohibited from doing so. We sometimes fight to give users notice of a data request by seeking to lift gag orders or unseal search warrants.

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Has to be fake. Every reddit user knows how to doctor an image! =P

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Look, everybody, I got an email screenshot from "Barackobama@google.com", who wants me to donate 20.000 Dollars in unmarked bills to his campaign because otherwise they will review my sisters immigration status.

Yep. Help me protest barack obama based on that, and tell me more about how much of a badass you are.

(Wait, you are american? Damn, then you get regularely groped by the TSA....)

Every kid with 5 bucks worth of free time can fake an email header, and research enough legalese to draft a decent email. If this is real, hat off, and I feel sorry for you, but I would need more proof then that.

Can I expect something like this for viewing certain internet pages such as this subreddit or media that could be labeled "anti-zionist" on YouTube?

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Can you give me an idea of what it takes to actually get this kind of email? You aren't going to tell me what you did (obviously) but if you could think of a different instance that is similar, i'd like to know. This is crazy.

You have got to be kidding me. I'm going to make a Google account that's NSA@Google.com and you will believe I'm the nsa.

Of course the govt is spying on us. Anyone with half a brain has known this since the 90s. My point is it didn't come from that bullshit email address that OP posted

Very interesting. Sounded so made up. I apologize!!!

Yeah, top left of the image, address bar.

Image is a complete fake. This is entirely fake.

Downvote into oblivion.

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What happened?

Make this happen!

This is the coolest beginning to an internet hookup that ever existed.... I hope you two get it on.

Me & that Veronica Vaughn, we got it on.

I'm in central FL, and while I'm almost curious enough to meet you, my paranoid side says, why the F would I meet some random stranger in a random parking lot who's already under some sort of investigation. Curiosity is not enough to have me linked to you;)

Make this happen!