Markus

first thing I'd do would be to check the member profile info on the sender. Some people do put 'real' location information in there, so that might aid in finding them. One assumes that you could contact hotmail staff and report and abusive email, and see if they can help.

Also, the header information from the email could possibly be used to trace where it came from, as in IP address, which could be linked to maybe an AOL dialup account or something, and this info could be used to get the CLI number of the person and then the address.

ChrisB

In the message headers, there should be an IP which is the addy of the machine the message was sent from.

You can cross reference it with with RIPE (if it's an European IP) but it could be spoofed.

judgejules

The IP addy will come from the Borg cube that is one of Microsoft's datacenters as its sent out using hotmail

Short of lucking out with the profile info you're only bet would be the police, but I doubt they'll be interested until someone is hurt etc as I doubt hotmail would be interested in looking at their logs to track it.



J

ChrisB

Hotmaill messages used to have the IP addy of the PC (or firewall NAT or whatever) which sent it into their server. I know of somebody who got traced, caught and fired from a bank in the City...

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iTrader: (2)

Hotmail actually sends the IP of the originating machine ('s connection) not the Hotmail server in the header.

ChrisB

It's the field marked X-Originating-IP in the header.

Just checked now and it still does it.

Avi

I've also been caught because my computer name was in the header (wasn't malicious mail, just a bit of fun)

judgejules

ahh heh cool, I'll remember that if I ever need to send dodgy email

J

lightning101

Just use anonymous mailer - free downloads on net. And send him a couple of e-mails back. Then use his IP address to log into spam and advert sites and sign up for everything.