Identity Theft via email....

Entering the IP into Whois gives this info

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(Asked whois.apnic.net:43 about 203.94.135.138)
inetnum: 203.94.128.0 - 203.94.159.255
netname: UECOMM-AU
descr: Uecomm
descr: Broadband fibre network service
country: AU
admin-c: UN10-AP
tech-c: UN10-AP
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-lower: MAINT-AU-UECOMM
changed: hostmaster@apnic.net
20000607
changed: hostmaster@apnic.net
20010618
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net
20031111
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net
20070718
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net
20071017
source: APNIC
person: Uecomm NOC
nic-hdl: UN10-AP
e-mail: innov8@uecomm.com.au

address: Building 8 658 Church St
address: Richmond Vic 3121
phone: 61 1800 707 447
country: AU
changed: adgriffiths@uecomm.com.au
20071016
mnt-by: MAINT-AU-UECOMM
source: APNIC

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It doesn't really mean much to me but maybe others can give more info.

For passwords I like to think of a sentence and use the first letters etc

ie

I Used To Own A 1976 Range Rover would become
Iutoa1976RR for instance - once you have entered it a few times it becomes easy to remember.

With regard to the police, my daughter received some particularly nasty SMS for a while. The police were quite helpful and the messages soon stopped after they became involved (maybe the culprits just got scared when they new we had reported it)


Martyn

I'm not sure how the Vic system works, but in NSW if the email was sent from school, the student would have logged into the DET portal.

Both the school and the DET have a surprising amount of access to information about who did what on school computers.

There are a few ifs and buts in this, but if it seems that the bullying was done using school resources, then schools take the issue very seriously and do have ways of monitoring activity.

most likely hacked from somewhere else in the world.
Best just report it to Hotmail and change password.

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Originally Posted by incisor

depends how clued in the bully is.

hotmail is dead easy to hack but it is more likely your daughter used a simple password that they have guessed.

hotmail maybe able to find session logs if you can forward them the full headers of the original message etc to their abuse account.

but, if our hero is clued in he will have used an anon proxy site which will leave no trail of any use, i doubt that would be the case tho...

ditch hotmail, use another service.

make sure you always use a password that isnt a dictionary word, and ensure it contains letters and numbers with at least one capitol letter.

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too right blow hotmail off go for gmail or another server but not yahoo

If the hacker is pre teen male/female known to you a big scare by police may solve problem, unfortunatly sometimes it makes it worse. I have two daughters and have had SMS problems in the past but a friendly chat by the locals sorted it out in both cases. The culprits never think anybody will find them.

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Originally Posted by feral

I have deleted all the addresses that I believe have nothing to do with the origination. From what I can work out I think the address is the 'X-Originating-IP: [203.94.135.138]

Now if I match this to other emails received by our bully would you say that this is adequate evidence?

Unfortunately this is one of my mates kids and we(my wife & I) would like not to lay blame but to rectify the situation and make sure they are aware of what is going on.

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I work in IT Security at a University, and in my role I've had a lot of experience in compiling and interpreting digital evidence.

I say this because the information you've found identifies the computer that was used to send a message, not the person who sent it.

Sometimes ISP's allocate temporary IP addresses to clients, so they can change. It may also be that someone else used that computer etc.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that I would not reccommend you approach the other family and identify a member. If you do want to speak to them, it'd be better to say you think someone using their computer may have been involved.

If you want to report this though, I would not speak to the other family at all and just provide the evidence you've found as part of a complaint to Police. It's always better to let the professionals handle the work, approaches, interviews etc.