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

From: Brad Arlt (arlt_at_cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
Date: 05/28/03

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    Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:36:21 -0600
To: steve baker <stephenbbaker@hotmail.com>

    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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