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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on April 13, 2023, 09:59:21 PM

I was chatting with a lawyer in the EU who's familiar with this situation. His words "Unfortunately I'm 99% sure that taking legal action is completely useless. The "damage" is relatively small and mostly for people outside of France, so this will definitely not be considered a priority. And obviously the fact that it concerns crypto makes it even more complex. There is no real legal framework, no customer protection legislation. Also how in the earth is someone going to explain the concept of physical crypto to a French civil servant".

I just wanted to share. I don't care if I see any money back from all this, I'd rather see others affected get it over wasting it trying to sue him. My last thoughts on all this.

   If what you are saying is true...then its a damn shame that this thief is gonna get away with all of the BTC he has stolen and premiums destroyed! Not counting also that he has stained our hobby for years to come as well.

   All I would want is him to be held accountable for his actions. But like you mentioned it seems that he is going to get away with it. Its a damn shame really how such a thing can happen and nothing can be done.

   Would this fall under a cyber crime? And if so I am sure France has. Also if the FBI were contacted would they be able to go thru InterPol about this since many USA members have been affected.

Your probably right and will not argue as I am not in Europe and have no clue what this will take.

Its just sad that he will get away with this as if nothing ever happens....perhaps good old Karma will prevail.

And if not, I am sure he will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his days.

On another note...I tried to find a good android app to track btc addresses and really could not find one that would give me an alert of any change in balance. I had a good one 6 years ago but could not transfer to my new phones and was never able to find on googles playstore.

But I did find this website https://cryptocurrencyalerting.com/wallet-watch.html#

I believe the first three addys are for free to watch then you pay something for more as follows..

https://cryptocurrencyalerting.com/pricing.html

I added my bond addy as that is the only one I need to monitor atm and thought I would share this site for others as well

Not sure about France, but if the alleged thief resides in England, and you know their name and address, and police are not interested enough, you would start a civil small claims court process. You dont need a laywer/solicitor. But that means you would need to explain, to possibly a legacy judge, what theft looks like in the blockchain world. Hmmm.

We can all see how criminally pathetic and desperate this piss-flap is, but I think you would need more than one French citizen who was/is affected by this, to officially report it to the french police, for you to have any chance of this escalating to a criminal matter.