Gmail account being used for identity theft
Hi-
I'm trying to help a family member with an identity theft issue.
It appears that someone has made a gmail account with the format involving their first name, last name, and an initial, and has been using that to switch over contact information on credit bureau accounts and attempting to do so on some of their bank accounts. The gmail account is associated with a phone number that this family member has never used, and (obviously) they did not create this account.
Does anyone know how to raise this issue with Google? It would help our efforts to get ahead of this if that account were to be locked out/deleted while we pursue other fixes (credit freezes, etc).
Appreciate your suggestions.
EDIT: since this keeps coming up, yes I know that Google hasn’t done anything wrong here. Using a Gmail account for fraud is a violation of the Gmail TOS. Just asking how to raise that TOS violation with Google