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Disturbing e-mails from Hotmail.....

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by total geek

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Somebody from our office is sending highly offensive and disturbing e-mails through Hotmail. Is there a way of finding out where the Hotmail account is coming from as we are trying to find out who is doing this?? I know that the Hotmail server sits on the West Coast of the US but I need to know whether it can find where it originated from in Australia, Melbourne as this is where we are situated.

Look forward to a response.

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by shanghai sam

Its easy to figue it out. Just look up the IP by displaying a verbose header in your mail client. You should be able to complain to the authorities in your country using that originating IP.

by jereg

Are you sure it's from someone in your office? It migth be, but several people in my office, (including me) have been getting porno links from people(s) using hotmail accounts. If you go to hotmail.com, there are instructions on how to handle this. Go to the user, or have them forward the mail to you, then open it. If you're using Outlook, you need to click on VIEW\OPTIONS, and copy the internet header info into the message. Then, send the email to abuse@hotmail.com. They will close down the account and follow up on it.
Hope that helps.

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