This case interested me because while there's a good chance this account changed hands there's a slight chance it still belongs to the original owner.

Vlad (Vlad2Vlad) is a mercurial fellow who has been around for longer than myself. I think he may have been temp banned but it looks like he logged in just a couple of days ago, so I pinged him. Maybe he'll see my post. Maybe he's still temp banned, hard to say.