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[Legal Question] Online Doxxing & Harassment

Waffles or whateverWaffles or whatever Previously known as, I shit you not, "Waffen"Registered User regular
edited April 2019 in Help / Advice Forum
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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    If you know what city they live in, could you contact their local police department?

    That video that you have may be enough to convince the local cops to at least go give the guy a talk and hopefully scare him into knocking shit out.

  • BlazeFireBlazeFire Registered User regular
    Have you tried contacting a local FBI office? I thought they were responsible for cross-state crimes?

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    I would think threatening someone in the military is a Big Deal.
    Is there any infosec team/branch that your could contact?
    Seems like these things usually are a lot of "not my juris-DICK-tion" crap so anyone who could explain it to local PDs and get them to take action would be good.

  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I'm no expert but especially if you do plan to pursue legal action you miiiiiiiiiight want to get rid of the details in your post and stick to generalities. This isn't the kind of thing you want to fuck with.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • Waffles or whateverWaffles or whatever Previously known as, I shit you not, "Waffen" Registered User regular
    Tried to scrub it a bit @ceres . Let me know if its better/worst.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    BlazeFire wrote: »
    Have you tried contacting a local FBI office? I thought they were responsible for cross-state crimes?

    Yeah I'm fairly positive FBI handles stuff like this, for civilians at least. (both cross-state and blackmail/online violence)

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    BlazeFire wrote: »
    Have you tried contacting a local FBI office? I thought they were responsible for cross-state crimes?

    Yeah I'm fairly positive FBI handles stuff like this, for civilians at least. (both cross-state and blackmail/online violence)
    They do, calling their local field office may yield some results, but they are slow.

    It would help you if you knew more about them, what state, city county they live in.

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