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

[Brad Arlt <arlt () cpsc ucalgary ca>]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:38:58PM -0400, 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?

Likely you alone will not be able to.  I know we do not and cannot
release information like that without either consent (which in this
case will not be desirable to obtain) or a document from the court
(search warrent, cipena (I know I spelled that wrong), etc.)

There are laws in some nations (like here in Canada) that say threats
are bad (an arrestable offense maybe).  I would phone the police, and
they can direct you how to proceed.

It is possible they can obtain the information from Yahoo, while you 
will not be able to.
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   __o          Bradley Arlt                    Security Team Lead
 _ \<_          arlt () cpsc ucalgary ca                University Of Calgary
(_)/(_)         I should be biking right now.   Computer Science


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