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

From: Florian Streck (streck_at_papafloh.de)
Date: 05/28/03

  • Next message: John Canty: "RE: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free accounts (yahoo, hotmail" 
    Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:22:30 +0200
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

    I have the very same problem. My first approach was to contact the
    police, but with no result. Now I'm trying to find out as much as
    possible about the IP (thanks to hotmails X-Originating-IP) that was
    used to send the Mail. Just now I'm stuck with slowly responding admins
    from the university that owns the IP.

    As a short recipe:
    - if there is no such thing as the X-Originating-IP to definitely find
      out where the mail originated, block Mails with such content and don't
      waste any more timeon that topic.
    - if you have such an IP, try to find out whom it belongs to (reverse
      dns lookup and whois). Then mail to their abuse department and ask for
      help. They only need to lookup who owned the IP at that time (with
      dynamic IPs) or who used the computer at that time. If they don't
      cooperate to well then try the police but don't be to confident in
      them.
    - if you have an IP but it belongs to a computer with anonymous accounts
      you're also stuck.

    I hope it helps. If you find some other ways please let me know.

    Florian Streck

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