Originally Posted by Karolskip

I am a web designer, and have been doing this for about 5 years now and have never encountered such a problem. I use different web hosting providers depending on my clients budget and needs. I had a problem come up a few days ago where one of my clients got into an argument with the Mavrick Team (AKA Ihostthem.com) web hosting and computer services company's owner regarding services. She has reported to me that he went into her email account, and has emailed her clients false information about her services after their heated discussion. She told him that she was going to press charges. He told her that he had harvested all of her clients email addresses and will email them to her competitors if she does not back down. What can she do? I feel awkward as I am in the middle of it now. I was the one who referred her to Mavrick Team (aka as I Host Them) for web hosting services, and moved her site to their servers. This man has created such a big problem for this women now. Her clients are doubting her services and he is blackmailing her. She does not owe him any monies. She has forwarded two of the emails that her clients forwarded to her, so I know she is not making this thing up. I advised her to move all of her emials to a personal email account, contact all of her clients to let them know that someone has access to their info, and I am helping her move her site. She had registered subdomains of her main site with him and he would not release them to be moved to another provider (I helped her with that one). Who can she report him to? Please reply with some constructive advise.
Thank you.