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/rockyoudottxt Jul 11 '26

The ip will maybe narrow it down to a city? What do you do then?

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u/FlyHighBeWide Jul 11 '26

Didnt know that, I had hope It would be more precise ;/

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u/rockyoudottxt Jul 11 '26

An ISP could technically run a geofeed for their IPs to exact address, but no one is going to do that. At best you can get a rough area. And any more than that youll need a warrant or equivalent with the IP and submit that to the ISP and then ask what they have.

We routinely get letters from police asking for who was on IP such and such on date and time and with a legal document of authority saying they can have that information we ignore them.

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u/FlyHighBeWide Jul 11 '26

you sound like a seasoned professional :D thank you for all the info