Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker?

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?

Comments

Re:You're a fucking idiot

[macraig]

The last time I checked the Philippines was an island chain, not a territory in Africa. Don't you just sound credible?

Re:Use better logic

[AHuxley]

Yes, in Australia a "Bell" public phone would be taken over and a line of people would form to make at the time very expensive international calls.
This might be the same digital effort - an account with 'cash' is passed/sold around until it fails.