hello
i bought a repair part i needed in internet, and the user had alot of good feedbacks so i went ahead and purchased it from him
the thing is he scammed me, he made me send the bitcoin to a localbitcoin wallet, my question is, is there a way to track him down? he live in my city, so maybe getting his address and phone number from localbitcoins could be helpfull, i already contected localbitcoins support but they told me that the police should be the one contacting them, but i went to the police they contected them and they got the same response from them an auto generated email
I don't know were you live but this is one example of incompetent police or they are just trying to get rid of you (even worse), as things aren't even supposed to work like that.
If you file a complain based on what you have told us here first they will need to research if your complain is indeed true, and they will first retrace your steps and how you got to know and how you were in contact with this guy and this is another way of finding him.
Second, police won't request information from a party outside their jurisdiction without a mandate from the prosecutor.
Them emailing blindly localbitcoins support is not going to help and it's just not the legal way to do it.
So once you got to the police and filled a complain there is nothing left for you to do.
Wait for their investigation.
But once thing is making me curios about this whole deal.....how do you know he lives in your city?