I feel you. It would be nice (and a historic first) to see a BTC thief/scammer brought to justice and the stolen BTC returned, but I'm afraid that may never happen. In this case or any other.

It's hard enough to collect from regular fiat based frauds... if the money is gone, it's gone. If the thief has no other way to raise funds than scamming they ain't ever going to be able to pay anything back. Add BTC's stealthy easily moved, easily hidden properties it's even harder to protect from frauds and scammers. Factor in how easy it is to steal, how naive newbies are when handling it, how "Wild West" the whole ecosystem is at this point and how greedy for ridiculous overnight profits plenty new users are... doesn't look like BTC will ever have any long term use except for scamming stealing and ripping people off.

thank you very much, i must have copied the signature incorrectly because it doesnt verify. i will try again and check it with those helpful links you provided.

why doesnt multibit allow copy pasting of these sigs and addys? ill assume its a security measure, but it makes it nearly impossible to use.

anyway, thanks for the help. i dont even really use bitcointalk anymore, i just dont feel right knowing a cheat is using my good identity.

my account got hacked dec 1, I found out dec 3, i sent a signed message in PM to Theymos... I just want to know how long I should expect to wait. I had a lot of trouble doing the signed message (cant copy-paste to or from multibit) and I would like to know if my message worked or not. I'm afraid it didnt work and theymos merely junked it without saying anything to me. all i want is my stolen account back.