Re: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free accounts (yahoo, hotmail

["David J. Bianco" <bianco () jlab org>]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 12:38, steve baker wrote:
> One of our users has received questionable and possibly life threatening
> emails from a yahoo account that was created recently.  They have approached
> us to find out as much as we can pertaining to the person sending it.
>
> Of course, we are not YAHOO so we cannot determine anything about the mail
> other than the content.
>
> How can we find out who sent this?

Unless the offender used your own network to connect to Yahoo to
send the emails, you probably can't tell who sent them without outside
assistance.  Consult your legal counsel about the possibility of 
calling in law enforcement.  This sounds like a case of "cyber-stalking"
and there are laws against this.

        David

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David J. Bianco, GSEC GCUX              <bianco () jlab org>
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
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