Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker?

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 20, 2013 @06:18PM from the hi-from-indonesia dept.

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?

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Post numbers by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-20 18:26 · Score: 5, Interesting

1] Post the numbers dialed to 4chan
2] Wait for the onslaught of harassing calls
3] ???
4] Profit
Re:No point by BrokenHalo · 2013-04-20 21:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

Sadly there's no point in bothering.
In this instance, I might disagree. Given that those calls were (according to TFS) made to Senegal, Mali, Benin and Philippines, that in itself might be construed as suspicious. You could pass the information on to the FBI and tell them you are concerned your account could have been used for terrorist activity. Let them come down on the perps.