Hotmail??

[Christopha]

Some close friends have received very unpleasant emails from an hotmail address. Is there any way of tracing these things so that the sender(s) can be stopped?

[Joash]

Go here
https://www.abika.com/forms/Verifyemailaddress.asp

fill in all details...or as much as possible, you'll find your man there

[Joash]

great site

http://www.abika.com/Reports/verifyemail.htm

[Gumby]

What !!!

have you seen the prices for checking those emails. You must be joking ! :eek:

[womble]

probably not really on topic, but on another forum site I go to (model constructing) it was hacked by some little shyte, who I tracked to a hackers website. On this site various hackers had posted hotmail accounts and passwords that they had obtained somehow, pretty scary stuff considering how much hotmail is used.

Maybe its a hacked email address and someones using it? Are the emails personal or just generally offensive?

[Auld Bassoon]

Concur! Blerry outrageous!

[Christopha]

Maybe its a hacked email address and someones using it? Are the emails personal or just generally offensive?

Both I am afraid....

[chrisp]

Filter it. Use your email browser to send it to the "trash can" automatically. I wouldn't bother trying to track it if it isn't slanderous.

Our IT department automatically deletes about 95% of incoming emails - over 80 million items of spam per month:eek:

[Grunt]

Your ISP should also offer a service for getting rid of spam.

[ozwinner]

If you right click>properties>show details> on the email it should give all sorts of info like.

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au [210.8.230.166])
by mcn04 (Cyrus v2.1.14_CCA) with LMTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:35:49 +1100
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
Received: from vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by localhost.vfep6.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EE03486D
for <[email protected]>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:35:49 +1100 (EST)
Received: from vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAC13475A
for <[email protected]>;
Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:35:48 +1100 (EST)
Received: from fep02.mfe.bur.connect.com.au
(fep02.mfe.bur.connect.com.au [203.63.86.22]) by
vfep6.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C9F347D7 for
<[email protected]>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006
10:43:24 +1100 (EST)
Received: from [203.63.86.22] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
localhost.mfep02.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FA8F952 for
<[email protected]>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:43:23 +1100 (EST)
Received: from mx23.sjc.ebay.com (mxpool12.ebay.com [66.135.197.18])
by fep02.mfe.bur.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B094FF96B for
<[email protected]>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:43:14 +1100 (EST)
Received: from rc-v3conta015 (rc-v3conta015.smf.ebay.com
[10.9.12.115]) by mx23.sjc.ebay.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id
k9UNg5O9018454 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:43:13
-0700
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=dk; d=ebay.com.au; c=nofws; q=dns;
h=message-id:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:
content-type:x-ebay-mailtracker;
b=D7Z5IVMG0cPssQ+ZjdQOb4d8PP3oV13cz7L/ebiToU+aSxwfrmDopMwUI+7jEkmoG
Latv89TaEC3O6Ztwf7F1fMdJsISqJh4XHKvMHP4zdOzmtLwR0ehC/H0T8MgQdJbsx5T
KZXTHQ29jtEPlYmzCpVhWKvpYS132OrVrcfV8zA=
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:43:13 -0700
Message-ID: <420092170.1162251793245.JavaMail.SYSTEM@rc-v3conta015>
From: "eBay Member: veejet2" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Question for item #250042275405 - Commemorative Cravat 39-45
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=876229690.1162251793229.JavaMail.SYSTEM.rc-v3conta015
X-eBay-MailTracker: 10181.481.15.0
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-cca (2004-01-11) on mfep02
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-97.5 required=5.0 tests=HTML_60_70,
HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN, HTML_FONT_BIG, HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_BOUND_DIGITS_7,
USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.63-cca
X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender POSTFIX 1.6.0 on
vfep6
X-NAS-BWL: No match found for '[email protected]' (82 addresses, 0 domains)
X-NAS-Language: English
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
X-NAS-MessageID: 7002
X-NAS-Validation: {A02C821D-0DB3-4555-95EB-29F84D120DCB}


This one is from Ebay.

Al

[Christopha]

Thank you all.

[bsrlee]

Hotmail is like using the back of the door in a public toilet for your mailing address. Hotmail don't give a Rodent's DOnkey about security, and it is widely beleived that they encourage spammers to send mail to people with Hotmail accounts.

Any yobbo can sign up for a Hotmail account at any internet cafe and use it to post rubbish all over the place - if the mail is addressed directly to your friend, then the poster either a) knows the victim or b) there is/has been a virus/ malware on a PC with the victim's e-mail address on it.

It is also possible that your friend's ISP has a mail server that has compromised security - one of my other e-mail addresses keeps gettting SPAM addressed to other addresses on the same server, I'm guessing someone is playing silly B's with the settings or using some known holes in email addressing to spray their rubbish to all the addresses on the server.

[Stuart]

I block all hotmail email addresses (but whitelist specific people I know who use hotmail still). Nothing but ##### from that source these days.

[Toolin Around]

It sounds like someone your friend knows.

Anyone can get an email account at hotmail for anonymous purposes. Most people who sign up for hotmail accounts don't give a real names, country of origin... (me included) but that's easliy over come cause hotmail records all ip addresses of those who use there services. So actually finding the culprit is quite easy but it will take a great deal of effort to convice hotmail to give up that information to the relavent authorities. Tell your friend to talk to there ISP. The ISP will most likely have a professional relationship with hotmail and if the emails are serious enough they might give up the info to the ISP to deal with the idiot.

[Toolin Around]

great site

http://www.abika.com/Reports/verifyemail.htm

Just curious have you ever used the site or just plugging it for someone you know.

Some how I just dont think a 15 year old would spend that sort of money on finding email addresses