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

["Jude Naidoo" <jude007 () jnaidoo fsnet co uk>]

Hi

The email header will also have the network address that connected to Yahoo.
Do you have a copy of the header ?

Thanks

Jude
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <khayes () eastbay com>
To: "steve baker" <stephenbbaker () hotmail com>
Cc: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free
accounts (yahoo, hotmail


> Unfortunately there isn't a clear way to do this since Yahoo is the middle
> guy and the mail headers were generated there.  We recently had a similar
> e-mail come in and we spoke to Yahoo directly.  While they were
sympathetic
> to the situation, they stated some sort of Court Order or Law Enforcement
> involvment would be required for them to give out information.
>
> Ken Hayes
> Network Administrator
> Eastbay / Footlocker.com
> Wausau, WI Offices
> (715) 261-9573
> khayes () eastbay com
>
>
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> |         |   "steve baker"           |
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> |         |   05/27/2003 11:38 AM     |
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> 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?
>
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