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Amusingly, I went to a meetup with some feds the other day.

Their statutory minimum to investigate is 5k, but they suggested it's worth getting in touch with them either way. If nothing else, it'll give them an excuse to say "cyber" a few more times.

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This. I was defrauded to the tune of $3,500 (run of the mill stolen Paypal account bought a top of the line iMac from me on eBay) and after discovering to my horror that both eBay and Paypal sidestep all fraud for protection... I called the FBI, police, etc.

They listened politely until I said how much it was worth -- one of my favorite quotes was "If you added a zero to the end, we'd knock down their door at 6AM tomorrow. For $3,500 it's simply not worth our time."

The decimal point adds two zeros. ;)

He is still a criminal either way.

Dang, that sucks. So neither eBay OR Paypal helped? Did you send the macbook to the "Paypal verified address", because I thought that was one of the protection requirements?

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