I'm not taking the legal route, I'm taking a physical confrontation route. The mission is to also confirm his identity and find out more about him for the people who ARE taking the legal route. We will also see what he has to say, and what his family has to say.
A flight from Canada to Italy is just over $1000 according to expedia.ca.
I want to spend at least a week there to pursue this, so add another $1000 for hotel room and $500 for food.
Extra funds will help with tools, such as a video/audio recording device, stungun (for self defense of course in case someone tries robbing me, right? read between the lines if you wish), etc... but If I can't raise them I will buy them myself, but I don't think I will need over $2500. Every bit extra will help (if I do raise more before I book my flight, I will extend my stay which may increase the effectiveness of the pursuit).
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Any funds I don't use will be returned.
How are you planning to find him once you get there?
The irony is that the higher the price of bitcoin goes, the more and more pissed off labcoin investors are going to get.
And the more and more fiat they'll have for...
revenge.
Alberto pulled a big scam in the past, and agreed to settle at a price of $12/btc (and never did) If the average person had, say 100 btc and lost 50, they'd be out $1200, they'd be out $600, and have $600 to spend tracking them down.
On the other hand, the same thing happens now, someone who had and lost the same # of BTC would have lost
$24,000, and they'd have
$24,000 trying to track him down.
I think going to the cops is the way to go at this point. People were talking about lawyers, etc. But at this point he's shut down the website and completely stopped paying divs.
The police will be able to look up where the IP addresses were physically located. They don't even need supenas, Alberto has left his IP address all over the internet. But they'll also be able to get more, like the IP he uses on bitcointalk, and so on. They'll be able to get payment records for Linode, and find his real, fiat currency banking details. And of course, they'll then be able to track down the IP addresses he uses to do his banking, as well as seize/freeze those accounts. They'll be able to discover (and even seize) any bitcoin he has on exchanges, or other sites he doesn't control. He'll be cut off from the banking system, unable to trade bitcoin for anything other then cash from other members of the bitcoin community, which will be more difficult as everyone will know who he is and he'd be afraid of getting re-scammed.
It depends on how motivated the police are. The money he stole last time wasn't enough for the police to care anyway, but this time it's easily into the hundreds of thousands of dollars they (at least in the US) will roll out of bed for. Of course, it depends on which jurisdiction he's in. The FBI took on the Pirateat40 case, and people did get some compensation. OTOH, Italian or HK cops might not care.
VirtualSpade, Do I need to PM you something ? I'm ready to pay some BTC for justice. 
