Delhi school bomb threat What is mail.ru used to send threatening emails

There was panic in all the schools of Delhi-NCR on Wednesday morning. At least 100 schools were threatened with bombs through e-mail. After the news came out, panic spread among students and parents and schools started being closed. The cyber team of Delhi Police has started investigating the matter. A Mint report said the bomb threat e-mails were sent from Russia. A single IP address was allegedly used to send e-mails to schools from the domain ‘mail.ru’. ANI quoted sources as saying that such e-mails are usually sent using a VPN connection, so that the sender of the mail can hide his original IP address.

What is mail.ru

One Report According to , mail.ru is a Russian webmail service, which was launched in the year 1998. It is the largest webmail provider in Russia and the European continent, with more than 100 million active e-mail accounts. It is the fifth largest mail provider in the world.

So was the threatening e-mail sent from Russia?

As we told you, such e-mails are usually sent using a VPN connection, so that the sender of the mail can hide his original IP address. In such a situation, it is not necessary that the mails were sent from Russia. Enemies sitting in the country or from any other country can carry out such conspiracies.

Police tracing IP address

The police team investigating the case is busy tracing the IP address from which the mail was sent. If it is successful, it will be easy to identify the sender of the e-mail. The police is also investigating whether the e-mail was really sent for the purpose of threatening or there is some mischief in it.