Hate mail

Hate mail (as electronic, posted, or otherwise) is a form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient. Hate mail often contains exceptionally abusive, foul or otherwise hurtful language.

The recipient may receive disparaging remarks concerning their ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, intelligence, political ideology, sense of ethics, or sense of aesthetics. The text of hate mail often contains profanity, or it may simply contain a negative, disappropriating message.

Senders of hate mail normally send anonymous letters or pose as someone else (either a different or fictitious individual) in order to avoid being identified and tracked down, as the nature of some hate mail would inevitably result in criminal charges if the sender was identified.

Famous individuals including actors, members of the Royal Family, politicians and sports people are known to have frequently received hate mail. Players and managers have frequently received hate mail from supporters of rival football clubs, and hate mail has also frequently been sent by fans to players and managers of their own club when they feel that their performance or attitude has been inadequate. Racially motivated hate mail has also been a frequent occurrence, as well as hate mail relating to the Sectarian divide between Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow, Scotland, in particular Neil Lennon, who managed Celtic from 2010 to 2014.

...
Wikipedia