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tracing e-mail under a yahoo account

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by chosen

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...here's the situation:
an intruder logged on to someone's yahoo mail account, changed the original password, and proceeded to send out derogatory messages to everyone in the owner's address book...the original owner didn't know until he started to receive phone calls...he can't get back into this account (password changed by intruder) and has since created a new one...is there any way to find out the culprit in cases like this...any help will be greatly appreciated...

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by ann777

Yahoo should be able to trace the date/time and ip address of the person who changed this. The problem may be that the person did this from a public computer or there may be other problems with getting Yahoo involved.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anti-spam/message/583

Ultimately, I recommend you avoid Yahoo. There are better "free" e-mail providors.

by chosen

thanks anna777...in the past yahoo appeared not to take action soon enough on things like this...has this changed...also, i was kinda hoping there was something (a tool of sorts) the owner could implement/use to take care of it himself...

by yobosaeyo

Grab email tracker pro and you will be able to track the person down to his originating I.P. address.

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