How to track email harassment

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Sl33py

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Hi
We have someone harassing the director of a company with a Gmail account. How can we trace and find out who it is?
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How about grow up and just ignore it? I am guessing a director should be able to do that.
Either that or it could be that the director deserves it.
 
Why not just set up a filter that whenever an email arrive from that email address it gets deleted permanently, that way he will never even notice the emails.
 
if you have a director, you should have a email server.

just blacklist the email address on the server, and you will never have issues from them again.
 
I can setup a filter, we want to catch the person, and they are passing threats and also subscribe them to all sort of junk from the internet
 
also subscribe them to all sort of junk from the internet
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You seem like a n00b, let me explain why. He is using a gmail account, and you want to subscribe him to all sorts of junk, on a gmail account, really...
You do know that gmail has one of the best spam filters on the internet? And with how much storage offered by Gmail? There is no way that this will even be noticed by the account holder.

That last statement blew any credibility you had out of the water, okay, but why do you want to "catch him"? What are you going to do once you have caught him? Spam him with leaflets and promotions from your company?

If it was serious, like death threats, then you would have contacted the police already, so I doubt it is serious and therefore I have to second what has been said already:
How about grow up and just ignore it? I am guessing a director should be able to do that.
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Sl33py said:
I can setup a filter, we want to catch the person, and they are passing threats and also subscribe them to all sort of junk from the internet
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Maybe the director should apologise for whatever he did. It would appear that someone is lashing out in the only way they can. Provide an outlet and these things won't happen. Directors shouldn't hide from the public, they should be accountable and approachable.
 
Am I correct in understanding that the director is getting harassment emails from a gmail account?

You'll need to open a case with the police. Google should keep logs and the such on their side. If the ne'er-do-well logs straight into gmail (without using any proxies or the such) then it'll be easy to track the culprit down.

If a proxy server (or an anonymizer) is used, then things will start to get more difficult.
 
MyWorld said:
You seem like a n00b, let me explain why. He is using a gmail account, and you want to subscribe him to all sorts of junk, on a gmail account, really...
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The person uses a Gmail account to harass the Director, the person that harasses the director subscribe the Directors email and contact details to cr@p on the internet not the Gmail account. The police are involved and traced the one email to an internet cafe. It is a drug rehab so any threats gets taken serious they already had their whole drive way full of nails...
 
There used to be software that one can trace email you send. Does anybody know of something like that? Maybe i can reverse the tracking process by sending them an email.
 
Sl33py said:
There used to be software that one can trace email you send. Does anybody know of something like that? Maybe i can reverse the tracking process by sending them an email.
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You need co-operation form the involved companies. Nothing else is gonna fly.

Get IP & ISP from Google. Take IP addr to ISP w/ court order and get account details. If its a public internet cafe then you need to get surveilance vids or CC details from the cafe, again possibly w/ court order.

If I were you I'd start by telling the director that there is a very high probability of tracking efforts going nowhere. The internet is like the wild west when it comes to crime.
 
If the directors email address is @companyname.co.za then just wait a bit until the company tanks and closes it doors and then viola! no more spam, no more director - no more problem.
 
Sl33py said:
The person uses a Gmail account to harass the Director, the person that harasses the director subscribe the Directors email and contact details to cr@p on the internet not the Gmail account. The police are involved and traced the one email to an internet cafe. It is a drug rehab so any threats gets taken serious they already had their whole drive way full of nails...
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Is it just me or does nobody else know wth that means?
 
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