As it states. Lookin to talk a cop from California who will give me non bullshit answers. Long story short. Got robbed at gun point for about 10 grand worth of video equipment and a friends iPhone. Filed a police report. Trying to figure out what else I can do about it. Cops say they can track the phone but only if they have a warrant. Any ideas or suggestions?
I'd contact a lawyer in the CA bar before the cops, but unless you have an idea of who the perps were, you're probably SOL.
Find my iPhone. It's an app and as long as your friends iPhone wasn't jailbroke, and he is willing to give you his information, and the phone is turned on, it will show you exactly where your iPhone is from its gps.
Your fucked, cops don't give a shit, sorry but they have more important stuff to do than track iphone's and video equipment. Best you can get out of them is a police report that you can use to verify the incident with your insurance company. Contacting a lawyer might help push a warrant through but the odds of them finding it is still slim, and if they do find the phone the rest of your gear is probably split up, sold or broke. Add that to the cost of the lawyer and you just got robbed twice. Best to chalk this up to life's lessons and I hope you had insurance.
Send a text message to the iphone saying you got the number from a friend and asking if you (Pretending not to know the phone and equipment was stolen and you're talking to the thief) are available to shoot some girl on girl sex with you and your friend. Tell him that you are looking for something professional enough to sell and make some money from. Offer to pay him $3000. Send him some sexy topless pics of some girl off the internet so he knows you're legit. Set a place, time and date with him and when he shows up have JfizzleRaider shoot him. Problem solved.
Also keep an eye on ebay. I agree about the police. Unless they have something to go on, property crimes are bottom of their list. Now, the fact it was an armed robbery should ratchet it up a notch. Can you ID any of them? If so, ask to see some mug shots... Not that it will help you get your stuff back. It was fenced an hour after they got it.
Somebody was able to make a copy of our credit card within minutes years ago at the Babies R Us store on Capitol Highway in Tigard. Local businesses had video of the perps on a spending spree that literally started 20 minutes after we left the store, VISA let us know almost immediately and actually covered the $4k in charges, and none of it involved the cops. They simply didn't care. Turns out there was an identity theft ring at that store, and one of the cashiers was involved, but it wasn't the cops who found out. It was the store who eventually caught her and turned over their evidence to the cops. I mean, these criminals spent $50-some at the Old Towne Buffet within 45 minutes, after they bought a huge furniture set, and filled up gas tanks for 3 cars. The card never left my hand, by the way.
How do they take a picture of the number and that other security code thing? Then they have to imprint it onto a plastic slug. How does this work?
In Oregon, Robbery is a measure 11 crime and a detective would get assigned to investigate it. Although not sure how much the detective can do. Going through mug shots is good idea but I'm guessing it is like finding a needle in a haystack Turn it over to insurance . . . probably covered under car or home or both. Hope you are OK. Being robbed at gunpoint can be a very traumatic experience.
They have a scanner on the card reader when you slide your card. They then transfer your information to a new card and spend as fast as they can. I don't think they go online.
That's how some people do it. Others sit in their car and pick up the wireless unprotected signal of the transaction being set from the register to the server in the store. Then they are able to embed that information onto the back of a magnetic strip on a blank card.
Carrier lock the phone so its useless. Theres nothing short you can do besides trolling Craigslist and murdering the sellers. hoop fam
