2006-08-16 03:20:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Call the yahoo 800 customer service number in the phone book. You can always forward them copies of the emails you are getting. They may be able to take action and cancel the person's account or tell them to quit or they will involve the police. For that matter, you can call the police. If the emails are that threatening it is a form of stalking.
The best thing to do in the interim is to change your email address and screen name.
2006-08-16 03:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't. However, there is a process you can follow. You need to get the original headers from the recipient of the message.
Someone on a security list summarized my thinking quite well. The important thing to understand is that email headers can be spoofed quite easily, so it's very important you include the email headers to anyone you report this to.
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That will have the sender's IP address. From there you can send the headers to Yahoo's abuse department (don't know the address offhand). Who knows if it will actually be addressed by them but that is all you can do.
If they ARE life-threatening then your best bet is to contact your local law enforcement agency, give them the headers and the emails, and they will submit a subpoena or search warrant to Yahoo for user records. Yahoo HAS to respond to those. However, if the offending user is outside the US, there still may ne nothing they can do. Though Yahoo will close the account. Either way, you will never know the identity of the real sender,
at least from this... the law enforcement agency won't tell you who it is once they have the records, nor should they, and neither will Yahoo.
2006-08-16 03:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Gizmo L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rather than tell everyone, figure out which people you might suspect. Then go to yahoo, hotmail, gmail, and others and create several email addresses. Give one email address to each person and tell them it's your new email account.
Make a list of which person get's which account. If you get another threat on a new account, you know who the culprit is and can isolate the account for review by authorities.
2006-08-16 03:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by shorebreak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sorry to take heed to that. a approach or the different i've got been performing under the theory Yahoo is a secure place. curiously there is not any such situation on the information superhighway. i'm guessing the Yahoo powers that be are particularly person-friendly to touch. attempt sending an e mail.
2016-11-04 22:38:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the police an Yahoo
2006-08-16 03:35:15 · answer #5 · answered by PC DOCTOR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are they saying? Unless you are an amazing hacker it's going to be hard to prove anything. My suggesstion get a new email and tell everyone you know, and if you start getting threatening messages on your new email it's one of the people you know.
2006-08-16 03:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
But them on your blocked list. Report it to Yahoo.
You can file a case against them, [your name] vs. Doe 1 -5, unidentified persons, in court and subpoena Yahoo for the information.
I have done it before.
2006-08-16 03:27:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋