Getting Death Threats in the comments

ecoreality · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 5:13 am
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I am moderating for a friend who is away. I only have “Edit” permission. We are getting inundated with hate speech spam, but I can’t find out how I can block a user or an IP. The site is OurFiniteWorld.com. The user to be blocked is “Quitollis” (obvious, if you look at the comments).

Please help. We are getting death threats from this user.

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
raincoaster · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 7:02 am
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Report them to the police.

I will also flag this for staff attention, so they can blacklist that commenter.
ecoreality · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 7:15 am
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Thank you, raincoaster.

The offending IP (86.146.31.55) is British Telecom, I’m in Canada, and WordPress is in San Francisco. Who the heck should I report it to?
auxclass · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 7:36 am
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Your local police or maybe also the RCMP (not sure what the Canada FBI is) – most police departments have cyber units of some sort – and a death threat is a death threat
raincoaster · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 7:39 am
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Report it to the local police. They can contact their corresponding department in the location where the comments originate. It might also be a VPN, ie a spoofed IP. Police have the tools to determine this.

This is good news, actually. The British are on a tear, going after abusive internet trolls.
gailtheactuary · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm
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The real Quintollis offered this information:

“The psychopathic threats from 86.146.31.55. should be reported to the FBI.”

Unfortunately, that IP address comes from British Telecom:

inetnum: 86.145.0.0 – 86.147.255.255
remarks: *******************************************************************
remarks: * Report abuse via: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact/c/346,3024 *
remarks: *******************************************************************
netname: BT-CENTRAL-PLUS
descr: IP pools
country: GB
admin-c: BTCP1-RIPE
tech-c: BTCP1-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
remarks: Report abuse via: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact/c/346,3024
mnt-by: BTNET-MNT
mnt-lower: BTNET-MNT
mnt-routes: BTNET-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: BT CENTRAL PLUS – OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
remarks: *******************************************************************
remarks: * Report abuse via: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact/c/346,3024 *
remarks: *******************************************************************
address: BT
address: Wholesale
address: UK
abuse-mailbox: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
admin-c: PC487-RIPE
tech-c: SR401-RIPE
nic-hdl: BTCP1-RIPE
mnt-by: BTNET-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to ‘86.128.0.0/11AS2856’

route: 86.128.0.0/11
descr: BT Public Internet Service
origin: AS2856
mnt-by: BTNET-INFRA-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
thatrobyn · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 6:50 pm
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Hello there,

I also want to make certain that you’re using all the WordPress.com tools at your disposal to keep the commenter from publishing anything on your site.

Here is a list of ways you can protect yourself:
en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

Please set up all those tools, and let me know if it helps prevent this commenter from appearing on your site.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.
ecoreality · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 7:23 pm
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Thanks, Robyn.

As I mentioned, I am “guest moderating” and have only “Edit” access.

I see the blog owner is here. We’ll see how we can coordinate comment policing better.
thatrobyn · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 8:59 pm
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Jan,

If you need me to help out the blog owner, I can. Just let me know how you decide to handle things.

Thank you!

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