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Dozens of women living across Melbourne’s south-east are alleged to have received used condoms in the mail and graphic messages for more than three months, sparking a police hunt for the person behind it.

More than 60 women who attended the same Melbourne school during the late 1990s have reported the disturbing pattern of about 100 letters to police, the Herald Sun reported. The packages have also contained handwritten letters detailing graphic messages.

The women who received the mail reportedly graduated from Kilbreda college in Mentone, 21km south-east of the Melbourne CBD, in the late 1990s.

In a statement, Victorian police said officers were treating this as a “targeted attack”. They said the first incident was reported to police on 20 March and the most recent on Monday.

“Investigators have been told several people attended their local police stations to report the incidents, with upwards of 65 female victims coming forward,” police said in a statement.

“It is believed that most of those who reported the material have received multiple letters, all with the suspected used item included.”

Police said the letters were sent to addresses in Melbourne’s south-eastern and eastern suburbs.

Former student Bree Walker was the recipient of one of the letters, describing it to the Herald Sun as “disturbing” and “creepy”. She said she struggled to sleep after receiving the mail.

The women’s details may have been sourced from an old school yearbook, according to the publication.

Kilbreda college’s principal, Nicole Mangelsdorf, told the Herald Sun the school was aware of the matter and were helping police with their investigation but did not believe it stemmed from any recent data breach at the school.

Detective acting senior sergeant Grant Lewis of the Bayside sexual offences and child abuse investigation team told publication that forensic analysis was been conducted on the mail’s content and inquiries with Australia Post were under way.