Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? 152
An anonymous reader writes "My Skype account was hijacked, which I discovered after Skype suspended it for suspicious activity, including a number of paid calls and an attempt to debit my card. Now that I've secured the account again, I can see the call history — there are several numbers called in Senegal, Mali, Benin and Philippines. Obviously I could call them myself and create a bit of havoc in their lives, but ideally I'd like to trace the hijacker himself — perhaps with some kind of 'social engineering' approach. Or is it just a waste of time?" How would you do this, and would you bother?
Ask Reddit... (Score:5, Funny)
Reddit seems to be fantastic at finding people on the internet given the flimsiest leads to their identity... sure they may get it wrong now and then, but hey... them's the breaks.
Re:I wouldn't start that journey from here (Score:3, Funny)
The answer is clear: The hijacker is Kevin Bacon.
Re:Use better logic (Score:5, Funny)
3. Realize if there was some way to retaliate or gain an advantage, they wouldn't be doing this for a living.
I'm waiting for SIFPTP (Simple Internet Face-Punch Transfer Protocol) to be implemented.
Call the numbers in Africa and say... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Post numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Actually your cat IS your personal army.
It may seem like the cat belongs to you, but if it really was your personal army then it would actually have to obey your orders.
In reality, you are more like a squire to your cat; you attend to the cat's personal needs when it isn't off doing heroic battle against a mouse or bug.
Re:Their ISP won't care (Score:5, Funny)
First become fluent at harassing people in African-French and Filipino.