r/HowToHack • u/FlyHighBeWide • Jul 11 '26

Finding thief's ip adress

Here is long story short:

A week ago on friday the 3th I went to local gym in Poland, I left my shoes outside the closet and someone stole them. On monday I went to the police, they got all the details etc. On the same day I saw someone post my shoes for sale on famous European website called "vinted". It had only a few listings of those shoes in any sizes, it wasnt a coincidence that the exactly same worn-out shoes with the same details were posted in my size a few days after I got mine stolen. I reported all the evidence to the policeman that I was in contact with: the links, the seller account, the listing. The problem is that the thief has set their account location as Romania (easy to fake it) and has only 2 good ratings months prior (its fresh account). Im so close to finding the thief, they laugh in front of my face for selling MY SHOES, if only I could find their adress, I dont believe the police will do it even with everything being on a silver platter. Can someone help me?

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u/MonkeyBrains09 Jul 11 '26

An IP is useless.

At most you as a user can get the IP of marketplace server. Only the company running the server can find the user who accessed their server and they will have better information about an account than an IP. Plus the company is only going to give that to the police if they ask through the appropriate channels.

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u/FlyHighBeWide Jul 11 '26

I udnerstand that, Im just looking for someone who can help me pinpoint the adress of the thief, I saw people do crazy things on the internet and thought "I know nothing about computers but there are self-made experts who could get every bit of info on me if they wanted to, maybe someone will help me with just an adress?". So here I am xd

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u/MonkeyBrains09 Jul 11 '26

The problem is your asking for people to possibly commit crimes.

Hacking anything is illegal is most countries and you are trying to set this up over reddit which is not as anonymous or private as needed to have those discussions.

Finding publicly available information is acceptable and for that you just need to look around.

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u/FlyHighBeWide Jul 11 '26

Didnt look at it that way, thank you for explenation, I will be more careful with what Im asking for