Are you threatening me?

Monday, January 31st, 2005 at 1034

You’ll like this.
Today, as a comment on my weblog, I received this:

YOU ARE ALL GAY AND I WILL KILL YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP

Sent from a user calling themselves “YOUR MOTHER”.

Firstly, I know it wouldn’t be my mum, as she knows how to both type in normal case, and punctuate. Nor do I think she’s out to kill us all, she’s a lovely huggable person who will, and I’m serious about this, hug anyone who gets close enough.

The IP associated with this heinous crime was 195.144.131.12 and here’s the corresponding Whois Lookup

I wonder what you’re supposed to do if you receive a serious death threat via email or the internet? Some people have told me you’re supposed to report it to the police and the host it originated from but I can’t help imagining that the police, especially in the UK, would just laugh in your face and go back to not arresting criminals. (Not that it’s all their fault, bloody bureaucracy.) Oh, why don’t I consider it a serious threat? This little RvB video might explain it. For all I know whoever it was might have taken a “How are you?” the wrong way…

3 Comment for “Are you threatening me?”

  1. Gareth Ablett (Zoomer) Said this on

    take down the date/time of the posting and ip and inform the administrtive/managment contact on the ripe details of the whois.

    They then will know what best to do with it, for data protection perposes they will not tell you who it is but i belive activity like this is breaking there connection agreement.

  2. Gareth Ablett (Zoomer) Said this on

    add to that last one the abuse email is abuse@uk.cw.net

  3. zimmer Said this on

    There is the possibility they are ‘owned’ by a trojan, and don’t know it yet…and the approach you could take in reporting it could follow the line of..’..have your servers been compromised? I received this spam originating from…etc.’

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