mjp Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 A good friend of our family is a long time upstanding business executive in a large international business. He recently started to receive email addressed to himself and about 25 other business executives that are his colleagues that contains subject matter with the purpose of defaming his character and reputation. The accusations are completely unfounded but the problem is that it is coming from a free Yahoo email account so we are at a loss of finding out who this person is and how to stop him/her. Can you offer any advice on how we may track this person down to try to resolve this issue? Thank-you. MJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 From your version of the story. one would think that a large international business would have at least one attorney available to start the process. You'd be dealing with privacy issues, so there'd be the general requirement of a court order for identification dats from Yahoo to happen .. However, as all this is totally hypothetical from this side of the screen and you're not going to get a lawyer to go 'on record' in a Forum like this .... this is a legal thing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Can you offer any advice on how we may track this person down to try to resolve this issue? Thank-you. MJP 25584[/snapback] You can by reading the headers identify the ISP and possibly the town the email came from further checks in google can often identify the person sending the email If you can identify the IP in the email header you past it into the box Here and it should show you the town where the posting came from Pasting the same IP in this box should identify the ISP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Betsy Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 one would think that a large international business would have at least one attorney available to start the process. And an IT Department that would know how to trace the emails back to the ISP so that the lawyer can start the legal proceedings. If not, he probably is able to afford to hire an expert on his own. Since the executive is an upstanding person, then the others receiving the email will probably discount what it says from their own knowledge of him. Miss Betsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 The Spamcop Parsing and Reporting Service should also be able to help him to identify the IP Address the email came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I see that although I was thinking it, I didn't type it in, and the references to tracking the IP address may go over some folks' head ... here's what I left out and others have been alluding to ... you say "from a free Yahoo e-mail address" .... we say, the From: lines are an easily forged item in e-mail, so the real question is tracking down where the e-mail actually came from, which is done by looking at the headers of the e-mail and tracking down the IP addresses of the systems involved in handling that e-mail. The likelyhood of someone posting something as bad as you suggest from their own computer using their own account would indicate a pretty stupid individual, but this would be easy to track down. Given a brain cell or two to someone trying to hide the source of the e-mail, now you're down to many problems in identifying the source. Again, all this 'net' stuff was written up for communications between U.S.Government offices and agencies, so the thought of some idiot doing stuff as you allege was simnply not envisioned ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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