A few weeks ago, a female blogger received an email threat. The perpetrator threatened to kidnap her from her office and later gang rape her. Shaken and unsure if all that was just a sick joke, the victim made a police report together with the printed emails and IP addresses of the perpetrator.
Just a few days ago, the victim reported that the perpetrator was caught by the police. It turned out that the emails were sent out by a group of college kids. Due to the fact that all emails were sent using the same computer, the guy who owned the computer was held responsible.
The police asked her if she wanted to press charges or to let him go. The boy’s father called up the victim to beg her not to press charges against the boy for it will destroy his future. In the end, she let him off the hook after requesting a letter of apology.
This story proves that no one is completely anonymous online. You will get caught even when you are not using your regular email address. Most (if not all) ISP keeps a record that shows which IP address was used by a particular account at any given time frame.
When you have crossed the line, prepare to face the music. Remember, comment sensibly or don’t at all.
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reminds me J J boy… luckily he didn’t use obscene language
Errr…. Actually you can.
Go to cyber cafe. Create a new mail from any free mail service.
And send the hate mail.
Tada. No one will ever managed to catch you.
Good information for internet nut like me! This is also why I am now very afraid as I do a lot of ‘pokeing’ in my site & of couse I ‘poke’ into a lot of sites also. Have a nice day!
@Freethinker
Yeah, lucky for him. Can you imagine if he did?
@Patrick Teong
Yes, that is possible. I’m not very good at this topic but I think there are ways to cover a person’s tracks even if he were to send it from his home. I don’t really know much though, so I’ll just stop here before I embarrass myself (if I haven’t already). Hehe.
@HORNY ANG MOH
Yeah, it’s always possible to trace by to us, unless you did some “prevention”. Anyway, if we done nothing wrong, there’s nothing to worry.