How to discover who sent an email through PH?

[TheHeretic]

Had a semi-literate, semi-abusive email sent through the PH PM system. How do I find out who the coward who sent it was, as they are refusing to identify themselves, or even reply?

The email was [e-mail].

[wollowizard]

I have no idea but are6729 returns many many car related forums and youtube accounts, so they must be identifiable somewhere in there.

[TheHeretic]

I wonder if it is just spam? I returned this when searching a comment on a video on another website with almost the same wording, from him/her/it.

[Big Al.]

Just carried out a check and the member in question, are6729 is deemed as a "spammer" and the profile has now been disabled.

HTH

[TheHeretic]

Mods, it seems this person is a bot, or just a complete tool who says the same thing in all these different places. I'd recommend banning whomever has that email address.

http://www.youtube.com/user/are6729

Repeated throughout the google search for are6729 + gene

Spam

[Big Al.]

TheHeretic said:

Mods, it seems this person is a bot, or just a complete tool who says the same thing in all these different places. I'd recommend banning whomever has that email address.

http://www.youtube.com/user/are6729

Repeated throughout the google search for are6729 + gene

Spam

Seems I've already sorted.

As per my previous post.

[TheHeretic]

Big Al. said:

Seems I've already sorted.

As per my previous post.

Ah yep, was getting links for you when I was doing the post. Cheers.

[ATTAK Z]

from http://mbworld.org/forums/members/234356-are6729.h...



About are6729
Vehicle(s) I drive
05 330i



that should narrow it down a bit

[TheHeretic]

ATTAK Z said:

from http://mbworld.org/forums/members/234356-are6729.h...



About are6729
Vehicle(s) I drive
05 330i



that should narrow it down a bit

There seems to be tens of these profiles, all with bugger all in them. It is a bot.

[Pesty]

Why would a bot send you an abusive email?


Copy and paste it us for a laugh

[TheHeretic]

Pesty said:

Why would a bot send you an abusive email?


Copy and paste it us for a laugh

Semi-abusive, and semi-literate. This was the email. Made me incredibly curious.

Email said:

This email has been forwarded by PistonHeads.com
Your email address has not been revealed to the sender
of the message, but will be if you choose to reply.

---

remove yourself from the gene pool, cretin

STFU dolt

Very odd.

[Pesty]

Strange


Dolt? who fking uses that word these days. You were spamed by a 1940's American.

[paulrussell]

Isn't he the person that started the mapped 335d phrase?

[Big Al.]

paulrussell said:

Isn't he the person that started the mapped 335d phrase?

It matters not now, any member found to be sending abusive emails will get his/her profile disabled.

[slinky]

TheHeretic said:

Pesty said:

Why would a bot send you an abusive email?


Copy and paste it us for a laugh

Semi-abusive, and semi-literate. This was the email. Made me incredibly curious.

Email said:

This email has been forwarded by PistonHeads.com
Your email address has not been revealed to the sender
of the message, but will be if you choose to reply.

---

remove yourself from the gene pool, cretin

STFU dolt

Very odd.

Google the body of the email, I think you'll see quite a few results..

[TheHeretic]

slinky said:

Google the body of the email, I think you'll see quite a few results..

Yup.. Already discovered that. Any idea what the point of the entire exercise is?

[DrTre]

TheHeretic said:

Yup.. Already discovered that. Any idea what the point of the entire exercise is?

Harvest your email if you reply?

[TheHeretic]

DrTre said:

Harvest your email if you reply?

That's why I replied with an alias.

[Mr Pies]

I had that exact same message around 12 months ago!

[DrTre]

Mr Pies said:

I had that exact same message around 12 months ago!

Heh. Forgot I sent that one.