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February 13, 2014, 04:35:32 AM |
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Most likely, the most beneficial result will be the actual police report which you can use to time-stamp an allegation of theft. You basically use them as a kind of "extra-official" notary service. It's also quite possible you have no use for this time-stamping service since you probably won't be able to take the person to civil court.
Online privacy is still somewhat sacred, but the government is God. If you ask police to do more than time-stamp, where they'll need to violate someone's privacy and serve demands to private companies holding the thief's information, you're SoL without solid evidence of who committed the theft... which you can't obtain without the police demanding private information. Great chicken-egg problem. If the government wants to do that based only on its own allegations, however, it will go right ahead - no problem. Maybe you can also get police to investigate by owning them and relevant people in the judicial system... maybe you are the mafia... this may result in superior performance.
Depending on the size of companies involved in keeping your thief's personal information, they may be willing to divulge solid information, or at least hints, if you privately contact them man-to-man to request information. It's theoretically possible that a company could look into a matter, decide you are very likely right, and provide enough information to take to the police and have them go up chains to finally arrive at the thief's identity. I have never been successful at that, however, and you'll need to present a lot of information which you likely don't have.... I've just taken IP addresses matching time-stamps of unauthorized access on accounts, contacted the owner of the IP address (has always been Amazon AWS), and then AWS Abuse staff tell me "we have not identified the user of that account as a thief. He has registered as a provider of mobile services." Can't really take that to the police.
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