A lookup on Yahoo doesn't get this person's profile. Get the header from the email (if you're on hotmail or many of the free services you can do that relatively easily, if on your own email system it's even easier, but if you use a client with an ISP not so simple. In the header is both the originating IP address/user and the routing addresses. Yahoo has a "report abuse" email account (I can't find it right now :P) that will help you with this. You can also read their Terms Of Service doc to help figure out how to approach them. The person has broken 5 or 6 of the "rules" with this email, even if they're spoofing the IP/email addy. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ is the TOS doc. This email suggests a person just used someone's legitimate service to commit a felony. Use that information to press charges, and if the authorities can't figure out this electronic stuff, then you should pursue it--or let one of us help. GrayMare