Pursuing the hacker's IP address will not succeed unless the local police cooperate with you, so this may be a difficult process to do, so the easy way is tracking the hacker bitcoin addresses.
shear your addresses here and we will try to post it to the Investigations section or pay for some tracking services.
If it has been sent into a central platform, your chance may be better in recovering it (I mean, in 2019 it's hard to cash coins without a central platform.)
Topic: Bitcoin Scammed! I have the server that scammed (Read 232 times)
I would not agree that almost $14 000 is small sum of money
It's all relative. It might be a huge sum of money to an individual, but to a local police department with limited resources, $14,000 in a crime that would be exceptionally difficult to trace, probably isn't worth the effort. Most crypto thefts, even those running in to the thousands of bitcoin and the millions of dollars, go unpunished.OP's only chance at this point is to go to the police, but even then, the chance is very, very small.
I'm afraid it is probably not worth the time or effort for your police department to investigate for a relatively small sum of money.
I would not agree that almost $14 000 is small sum of money, but if we look at it from perspective of bitcoin number is too small, only 1.6 BTC. In some countries people need to work for years to earn that sum of money, and I bet police would react if someone stole that sum of money from our house or from ordinary wallet.
Although the chances are slight for any positive outcome, perhaps report to the police can give some sort of hope to OP. As far as I know, no one is looking for justice in the case of Electrum phishing, people have been losing money for months. If 1.6 BTC is small sum, how about a few hundred or perhaps a thousand BTC which have been stolen so far?
The I doubt that I could sue the provider and I don't know if they will cooperate in giving information about the scammer.
They will not hand out their customer details without good reason, and you simply asking for them is is not reason enough. Your only option here is to file a police report and see if the police can get a warrant to obtain the customer's data. It will be difficult to prove that you were scammed though, and even then, as bones261 has said, the scammer almost certainly has signed up with fake details and via Tor or a VPN. There will also be no proof that the person who rented the server is the same person who coded the malicious wallet file. I'm afraid it is probably not worth the time or effort for your police department to investigate for a relatively small sum of money. 
Suing the web hosting provider or the scammer?
The I doubt that I could sue the provider and I don't know if they will cooperate in giving information about the scammer. Will they? Do they have any resistance in doing so?
The I doubt that I could sue the provider and I don't know if they will cooperate in giving information about the scammer. Will they? Do they have any resistance in doing so?
The DNS server is not liable in any way. You would have to find and sue the scammer. Unfortunately, the scammer probably took many steps to ensure that he can't be located, easily Also, the scammer probably doesn't care how this affects your life. Even if you did manage to contact him and beg for the return of your BTC, he's likely going to try and scam you out of more money. Also, I would be very leery of anyone sending you PMs offering to help you recover your BTC, for a fee... They are likely a scammer as well wanting to take advantage of you.
In the future, only download electrum from https://electrum.org and learn how to verify the PGB signature before executing.
Suing the web hosting provider or the scammer?
The I doubt that I could sue the provider and I don't know if they will cooperate in giving information about the scammer. Will they? Do they have any resistance in doing so?
The I doubt that I could sue the provider and I don't know if they will cooperate in giving information about the scammer. Will they? Do they have any resistance in doing so?
Think of suing them instead of begging.
Start by contacting the web hosting provider to collect more information about the scammer.
Start by contacting the web hosting provider to collect more information about the scammer.
I was fooled to install an update from electrumpad.com. It stole all my 1.6 BTC and I am dead broke now. Please help me.
I have the server that gave me the malicous link. It is oneweek.duckdns.org which I have found the IP address it is linked to. It is the IP of a company that provides servers. What should I do? What can I do? Will that company give me the owner of that IP address so at least I can beg him to give me part of the funds back??
Please help me. If the scammer is seeing this, that was partially my life saving and the rest wasn't mine! I was transferring it for someone. Please help.
I have the server that gave me the malicous link. It is oneweek.duckdns.org which I have found the IP address it is linked to. It is the IP of a company that provides servers. What should I do? What can I do? Will that company give me the owner of that IP address so at least I can beg him to give me part of the funds back??
Please help me. If the scammer is seeing this, that was partially my life saving and the rest wasn't mine! I was transferring it for someone. Please help.
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