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News & Notes: Mass death threat sent to Harvard students over email

Several hundred people affiliated with Harvard were emailed a death threat on Oct. 3, according to TheHarvard Crimson.

One of the email addresses that sent the threatening emails had been emailing many Harvard affiliates with donation requests and made attempts to contact the students through Facebook and LinkedIn.

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According to an anonymous source, the account had been sending emails to students since July, asking for money or telling people to follow the account holder’s Facebook profile. The profile lists an individual named Huy Dinh as its user.

On Saturday, Harvard police announced that the email was sent from outside the United States. On the same day, several hundred students received an email from the same email address that contained an apologetic message and blamed a “little brother” for sending the original message.

The emails contained racist language and seemed to target Asians. It was written in broken English and contained many grammatical errors.

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