There's an almost, I don't know the right word, jealous reaction to someone asking for help like this sometimes where people speculate on the legal success etc generally concluding failure. There are many good reasons to try to track a criminal. For one thing, often this is not their only criminal activity so plausibly denying this one activity may not help them in the end. But not if everyone throws up their hands and focuses only on the difficulties! Also, if they stole money or identity information and used it then there should be a trail of that activity. If I steal your credit card and it got used and it got used by the person you suspect stole it for other reasons (e.g., a phishing site was running at their IP) then that's a pretty good hint beyond just proving the one fact (it was their IP.) On the one hand this is not a great forum for getting this advice because of this sort of thing, people who have little to offer in advice start speculating on legalities etc. OTOH, it is likely that people on this list have had first-hand experience with this sort of thing and can usefully recommend what the OP might do next. I've had good and not so great experiences, but it's changed over the years. I've seen real creeps tracked aggressively in real time with warrants flying. I've also had LEO shout at me that they have only very limited resources which sounded like "if they rob a congressman call us, otherwise call your congressman and get us more budget first!" -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*