What are your thoughts on this?

Caroline73_2

If he had received it via email wouldn't it have been easier for him to forward it to your email address rather than cut and paste it into FB?

Odds are it's him.

Zazen999

I agree. For a start; if it was an anonymous account then you'd ask 'do you know anyone that might call themselves xxx or have an email address of yyy'....and nobody uses some of those phrases in a threatening letter!

I'd probably respond saying something as vague as 'crumbs!!!', I'd best look at my contacts' and leave it at that and either bounce any further emails or block his FB account [just to be on the safe side] or both.

Felicity

Hi, being a bit of a detective, I put some of that email into google (just wondering if your ex has posted anything about it on the web maybe asking for advice also) and came up with this ...

http://venompen.com/

I have no idea what it means though, but looks like a site where you can send anonymous emails from, just thought it might help a little, well maybe not, lol!

Your email was sent 24/11 via this site by the looks of it.

My advice, leave WELL alone, don't get involved at all.

Good luck!

Zazen999

Felicity - wow!

Busted - he quoted that it had been sent from an 'anonymous account' thus quoting from that website!!!

BallandChain

Busted indeed! I was reading the OP's first post and the thing that I felt was that the 'e-mail' was written by the ex and nobody else. He sounds unhinged OP and like others have said do not get involved. Also, you say he is fragile at the moment so keep your distance and let someone know where you are at all times. Sounds dramatic I know but these things can escalate and your safety is paramount.

Happy_Girl_2

Zazen999 wrote: »

Felicity - wow!

Busted - he quoted that it had been sent from an 'anonymous account' thus quoting from that website!!!

Is it that, or is it that the site publishes emails that have been sent through their site? Some of the emails shown on the site look quite specific as if they have been sent to one particular person, and not generic as if they are there for people to copy iykwim?

Felicity

Happy_Girl wrote: »

Is it that, or is it that the site publishes emails that have been sent through their site? Some of the emails shown on the site look quite specific as if they have been sent to one particular person, and not generic as if they are there for people to copy iykwim?

Yes, those were my thoughts.

It looks like a site set up so that people can send anonymous emails to others without being traced. Your anonymous email then shows up on the list along with all the others sent by freaky people!

So my detective work only goes to prove that an anonymous email WAS definitely sent. Of course the ex COULD have sent it to himself if he was really freaky (in order to create a trail as evidence). Who knows.

Best just to leave alone, completely. Freaky people scare me witless! Even if you innocently get involved you could end up being dragged into something not nice.

sarymclary

Felicity - that's a bit of brilliant detective work! Well done. I've had a look at the rules of the site, and it looks like you can send an anonymous email, but it will always get posted on the site, which is why they recommend you don't specifically name someone.

OP, I wouldn't give any further response to the ex about this. However, I would mention it to a close friend or family member, just so that someone else is aware of it. Does this ex live anywhere near to you, or do your paths cross at all anymore? There are tweaks you can make to your privacy settings on facebook that can not alert, like a friend cull, but you can make it so that he cannot message you, see your daily updates, see or write on your wall, etc. I had to do this for someone who I met at a school reunion a few months back, and he then began to post constantly on my page, comment on my statuses, and try to instant message me. He now gets to see nothing, none of my pictures, statuses, the lot. I did it after I had been away on holiday, and my page would have been 'dormant' for a while, so it didn't arouse any immediate suspicion.

BARGAINHUNTER!

Felicity wrote: »

Hi, being a bit of a detective, I put some of that email into google (just wondering if your ex has posted anything about it on the web maybe asking for advice also) and came up with this ...

http://venompen.com/

I have no idea what it means though, but looks like a site where you can send anonymous emails from, just thought it might help a little, well maybe not, lol!

Your email was sent 24/11 via this site by the looks of it.

My advice, leave WELL alone, don't get involved at all.

Good luck!

Thank you SO SO much! At least this proves to me that he did receive an anonmous email but it does not prove that he didn't use the site himself to send it to himself. He has sent me a text to say that he can't get onto Facebook anymore and has deleted the email so does not look like I am ever going to get to see actual email that was sent.

Zazen999

BARGAINHUNTER! wrote: »

Thank you SO SO much! At least this proves to me that he did receive an anonmous email but it does not prove that he didn't use the site himself to send it to himself. He has sent me a text to say that he can't get onto Facebook anymore and has deleted the email so does not look like I am ever going to get to see actual email that was sent.

How convenient; of course we all delete threatening emails rather than save them for future evidence, don't we?