Stolen laptop

Zack101

Zack101

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A friend of mine had her laptop stolen in a burglary last year, I had put Teamviewer on it and set up remote access to help her with any problems she had. Tonight it has popped up that the laptop has been connected.

Is there any way of getting the ip address off Teamviewer without actually connecting to the laptop, or is there a way of connecting up and getting their ip address quickly before they realise what is happening. I'm sure once they realise I'm in they will just shut it down, so it will have to be quick.
 
You'd think that having an IP address would then allow you to provide this to the police officer dealing with your burglary case, who could then follow up with the ISP and get a subscriber address and make more enquiries, but in my experience what they do is say "oh that's nice", completely ignore the issue whilst also refusing to close your file so your insurers won't pay out, and leave you without half the contents of your house for five months.
 
Don't suppose you could delete the password? Regardless they're going to get a message either with the pw to give you or a message you connected.

IP address will only go so far doubtful you'd get much closer than the town they're in. Police will be a long process and it would be gone by then.

Sorry :(

Quick team view straight to bottom right view grab the SSIDs and go war driving.
 
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Caged said:
You'd think that having an IP address would then allow you to provide this to the police officer dealing with your burglary case, who could then follow up with the ISP and get a subscriber address and make more enquiries, but in my experience what they do is say "oh that's nice", completely ignore the issue whilst also refusing to close your file so your insurers won't pay out, and leave you without half the contents of your house for five months.
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maybe they don't realise an isp can trace an IP to one of their customers?
 
I imagine its a bit of a sod to get the address from the ISP. Don't they then need even more evidence before they can execute a search?
 
I hate to dash any hopes you might have of reclaiming this laptop, but someone I know on another forum I frequent famously tracked down someone who stole his Macbook (using the built in software for tracking down macbooks etc). He knew the building they were in and everything, and had multiple photos that he took of the person who was now in possession of it (and published them online on a website he set up about it to humiliate/embarrass them). The moral grey area aside (as it could have been someone that bought it legitimately from the thief), the police quite frankly weren't interested in the slightest...it simply wasn't in their interests to spend police time on it, especially when you can't prove it was even that person that actually committed the crime itself.

In short, you're probably wasting your time :/ Unless you plan on confronting the thief yourself (I wouldn't recommend this)!
 
Stanith said:
I hate to dash any hopes you might have of reclaiming this laptop, but someone I know on another forum I frequent famously tracked down someone who stole his Macbook (using the built in software for tracking down macbooks etc). He knew the building they were in and everything, and had multiple photos that he took of the person who was now in possession of it (and published them online on a website he set up about it to humiliate/embarrass them). The moral grey area aside (as it could have been someone that bought it legitimately from the thief), the police quite frankly weren't interested in the slightest...it simply wasn't in their interests to spend police time on it, especially when you can't prove it was even that person that actually committed the crime itself.

In short, you're probably wasting your time :/ Unless you plan on confronting the thief yourself (I wouldn't recommend this)!
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so they didn't charge the guy with handling stolen goods? or even recover the laptop? that is BS I would have booted the guys door in and took it back my self.
 
It has most likely been sold to someone that doesn't know it was stolen.

I doubt the police will do much with just an IP address, next time it comes online connect and type "THIS IS A STOLEN LAPTOP PLEASE CONTACT XXXX POLICE STATION".

or

"THIS IS GOD, SEND ME MONEY"
 
arknor said:
maybe they don't realise an isp can trace an IP to one of their customers?
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If anyone else in their line of work came across a concept they weren't familiar with and made no efforts at all to find out, or transfer the issue onto someone who did, they wouldn't find themselves in work for very long.

You'd have thought it would be an easy win for the crime figures to get the ISP to hand over subscriber details and pay them a visit and potentially find a load of other stolen goods at the same time, but apparently not. I'm not hugely bothered about the complete lack of effort to investigate the case but more about the fact that they didn't want to close it either, leaving things in insurance limbo.
 
Caged said:
If anyone else in their line of work came across a concept they weren't familiar with and made no efforts at all to find out, or transfer the issue onto someone who did, they wouldn't find themselves in work for very long.

You'd have thought it would be an easy win for the crime figures to get the ISP to hand over subscriber details and pay them a visit and potentially find a load of other stolen goods at the same time, but apparently not. I'm not hugely bothered about the complete lack of effort to investigate the case but more about the fact that they didn't want to close it either, leaving things in insurance limbo.
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ISP keep the logs on customers for a pretty long time at the governments request as well.

I think it's 2 years
Burglars really are stupid.

Why would you steal a laptop and not format it instantly.
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Don't assume all burglars are adults , where I grew up loads of 14-16 year olds were robbing houses and selling the stuff on as fast as possible usually going straight from the house they just robbed straight to someone they could either sell it to for cash or to trade it for drugs.

I doubt much has changed in the 20 years since I were a teenager it's probably gotten worse
 
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There's very little chance of getting it back.

So instead of trying to track it, just download as much "underage imagery" onto it as possible, and then phone in an anonymous tip to the police... :p
 
Haggisman said:
There's very little chance of getting it back.

So instead of trying to track it, just download as much "underage imagery" onto it as possible, and then phone in an anonymous tip to the police... :p
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And then get done yourself for downloading underage imagery. :p
 
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