This happens all the time now. This is why you use a VPN, because if they reverse your IP from the hash they will use it to get yours banned.
I'm not surprised at all the guy worked for a junk mail company.
If we get Q&A level slammed we're gonna need to offload topics off of the main thread, otherwise we're gonna have 80% repeat questions, 15% banter and 5% other.
It gets more fun though.