tasairis wrote:If a crime was committed then you'll have more luck letting, say, the FBI track them down. Besides, this isn't your concern - it's the cardholder's. Their bank should be handling this, not you. Meanwhile you go refund the money, but not back to the card of course.
All PHP can get is an IP address, and if they're emailing you then you can get it already from the message headers.
Obviously you don't live in America. Who ever heard of the Government actually doing something? They don't go after the smalltime crooks. If you want something done, you do it yourself.
Who am I supposed to call, anyway?
"This is 911, how may I help you?"
"Yes, I'd like to report credit card fraud."
"Please come in to our office during our open hours and fill out forms AB436-9 in triplicate, and we will get back to you in approximately 18 months. Have a nice day"
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We have contacted the banks of the cardholders, and we blocked off the cards, but that still leaves someone out there who is not going to stop their criminal activities.
I do have the email headers, and I glanced through them, but I really have no experience with them, so I don't know which IP addresses point to the person's mail server and which ones point to their actual IP address etc. Do you mind, if I post them here or send them to you via PM, could you take a look at them and decode the jumble for me?
Sadly, the client is using a netzero account, they aren't using an official business email server. Curiouser and curiouser.
I just need something working that can go up on the corporate website that let's me know roughly where this person is located. Even if I can just get the IP address, that might be a start, even though they might be using a forwarding service, but it's worth a try.
Or maybe I should just take the $16,000 in the account and run.
Or if anyone knows the number to a government official who would actually listen, I would be more than glad to call.