3 Responses to “How do I report threatening emails to Yahoo besides sending them to Spam? Sender is an unknown from Bulgaria.?”

1. thankyoumaskedman says:

   January 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM

   Forward the emails to the abuse department of the person’s mailhost.

   You will need to open the email to show complete headers. Different programs have different ways to select this. Sometimes it is called “View Source”. In Yahoo Classic, you will find a link “Full Headers” to the bottom right of the message. In new Yahoo right click on the subject in the mailbox to bring up choices that include Full Headers. You need these, because spammers can forge addresses, but somewhere in the headers are probably IP (a.k.a. DNS) numbers that will identify their hosting service. They are in four groups of 1-3 digits. There may be more than one. Some may be from the internal network, some will be from the provider used to access the internet, some may be from an additional site (e.g. webmail), some may be forged, and some may or may not be added by your own email service. In general, deeper is usually close to the spammer. If the ones at the top are for your own service provider, look deeper. The headers should have numbers that will enable the host to identify the account that was used.

   It’s a good idea to open a text editor like Notepad to keep notes when you are working up a spam.
   Look up the IP numbers in the whois of the Regional Internet Registry (RIR). There are five in the world, and the one to use depends on the location of the spammer’s host. I usually start with ARIN, although in this case, if it really is being sent from Bulgaria, you should find a set of IP numbers registered with RIPE.
   U.S. and Canada
   https://ws.arin.net/whois/
   Asia Pacific
   http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_se…
   Africa
   http://www.afrinic.net/
   Latin America
   http://lacnic.net/en/index.html
   Europe
   http://www.db.ripe.net/whois

   Some email programs will include the headers when you forward, but Yahoo trims them out. To make this work, with the spammers message open and Full Headers selected, select and copy the headers. Paste into your notes. In your forwarding you can write: “Here are full headers” and copy them from your notes and paste them in above the forwarded body of the spam.

   I like to send a Bcc to myself to show that my email, went through, to keep a record of the report, and to see how it is displayed to the recipient.
2. Lyn G says:

   January 18, 2011 at 12:41 PM

   Report abuse to Customer care:
   http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/

   Address for reporting abuse from Yahoo accounts is
   network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com
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