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Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker?

Posted by timothy on 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?

6 of 152 comments (clear)

  1. get a life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously

    1. Re:get a life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?

  2. You're done. by VortexCortex · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would just call the FBI and tell them you're thinking about breaking the fucking law, so they should just put the cuffs on now.

    Then, to ensure I had no plausible deniability, I would crow about finding the hijacker's info on Slashdot and ask for help hacking, like some kind of idiot who got the first post and doesn't know what to say.

  3. Re:No point by johanw · · Score: -1, Troll

    And then get arrested and waterboarded just te be sure he wasn't getting himself an alibi? Trusting the FBI... that seems as smart and much less safe as trusting Nigerian 419 scammers.

  4. Re:No point by Spamalope · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you seriously live in such a paranoid delusion that you believe that crap?

    Are you really so sheltered you haven't personally witnessed 'I don't like the way you look' law enforcement? The variety I see most often is 'Your car looks fast so you must have been speeding sometime, here's your ticket for 10-15 over your actual speed'.

    Do you really think annoying them with puffed up story about something they consider trivial will have a better outcome? I hope your first experience with the sad reality is as a witness instead of victim. As a photographer I was lucky that my first experience with actual law enforcement/photographer interaction was as a witness when a professional photographer was beaten bloody for pointing a camera at them while they 'tuned up' someone who refused a search.

  5. Let me guess the ethnicity of the teen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can tell without knowing the entire story, that this teen must be a f**king ni66er