Quote from: stompix on March 24, 2018, 12:06:38 PM

Quote from: pupok on March 24, 2018, 05:17:56 AM

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?

because this guy who scammed me, has over 400 sells in the website and more than 3 years selling there.. he contacted me from a number (wich is registered in the website aswell).. and a friend of mine looked up the city where he opened the cellphone account.. after 3 years and 400sells he decided to start scamming.. but he most be stupid because i know i have his legit phone number.. but the police here is so corrupt u have to pay them so much money for them to work.. so i have to investigate for my self and then give them the information so it become cheaper