how do i go about reporting this...

[zoombini]

And your local police station is going to do what exactly?

I'd have thought that they would tell you to contact MSN yourself, otherwise they would get flooded with this sort of thing.

[simbr]

Microsoft really should take this extremely seriously, seeing as they used to have their name all over the NSPCC adverts.

[50420]

update:
well my mate decided against reporting this to the police...prefering to wait for advice from microsoft.
in the meantime.. i had sent this person an email, under the pretence that i wasnt aware of what was going on with the account... just a sort of 'hows it going.. what u up too' kind of mail..

had an abusive reply back this morning and have thier IP address as 81.103.221.** pretty sure this is an NTL IP address... but is it a mail server address or the users ?
this is the tracert result:

Tracing route to host81-103-221-**.not-set-yet.ntli.net [81.103.221.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 9 ms 10 ms 11 ms 10.149.39.254
3 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms swan-t2cam1-a-v102.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.9]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms swan-t2core-a-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225
.21]
5 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms bir-bb-a-so-210-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.237]

6 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms win-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.142]

7 18 ms 15 ms 18 ms win-dc-b-v900.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.166]
8 16 ms 18 ms 15 ms host81-103-221-35.not-set-yet.ntli.net [81.103.221.**]
Trace complete.

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by 50420

update:
well my mate decided against reporting this to the police...prefering to wait for advice from microsoft.
in the meantime.. i had sent this person an email, under the pretence that i wasnt aware of what was going on with the account... just a sort of 'hows it going.. what u up too' kind of mail..

had an abusive reply back this morning and have thier IP address as 81.103.221.** pretty sure this is an NTL IP address... but is it a mail server address or the users ?
this is the tracert result:

Tracing route to host81-103-221-**.not-set-yet.ntli.net [81.103.221.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 9 ms 10 ms 11 ms 10.149.39.254
3 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms swan-t2cam1-a-v102.inet.ntl.com [80.0.254.9]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms swan-t2core-a-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [213.105.225
.21]
5 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms bir-bb-a-so-210-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.237]

6 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms win-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.142]

7 18 ms 15 ms 18 ms win-dc-b-v900.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.166]
8 16 ms 18 ms 15 ms host81-103-221-35.not-set-yet.ntli.net [81.103.221.**]
Trace complete.

That is the users IP address .....

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by 50420

update:
well my mate decided against reporting this to the police...prefering to wait for advice from microsoft.
in the meantime.. i had sent this person an email, under the pretence that i wasnt aware of what was going on with the account... just a sort of 'hows it going.. what u up too' kind of mail..

had an abusive reply back this morning and have thier IP address as 81.103.221.** pretty sure this is an NTL IP address... but is it a mail server address or the users ?
this is the tracert result:
Trace complete.

If it truly was abusive then you could report it to NTL as well as letting them know exactly what has happened with the MSN account. Unfortunately the MSN issue is not under their control but they may be able to act on the email you received back from that IP.
http://www.ntlworld.com/help/aup/

[nffc]

You've filtered part of the IP but the host name makes it pretty clear what the IP is... :P

[bopdude]

Sort of on topic, my gf's daughters ( 2 of ) are always giving away / swapping each others passwords, no matter how much we tell them not to do it, it still goes on, I'm getting fed up of it and MSN will be taken off the pc ( again )
To me the problem sounds, as you say, like kids, you can't be to sure though, let us know how it goes