Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> DavidBee <DavidBee.38een5@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote

>>>>> I'm writing this on behalf of my 17 year old daughter.

>>>>> Her mobile phone was stolen last month. Someone used it and
>>>>> ran up a bill of over $400.00. When we received the bill we found
>>>>> that the thief made premium SMS calls on the number 19942226
>>>>> which were used to buy credits from the Habbo Hotel. We believe
>>>>> that the person was someone from my daughter's school.

>>>>> We're going to make out a police report and the police will require details
>>>>> of the account. Does anyone know the legal situation and the best way to
>>>>> approach it. There are privacy laws, but as this is a criminal act can the
>>>>> police get details of the Habbo Hotel account holder?

>>>> Corse the cops can get any details they want when criminal activity like theft is involved.

>>> Isn't "Habbo" based overseas? They may have an Australian arm,
>>> but if my memory serves me correctly, they're based in the UK.

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo_Hotel

>>> If that's the case, he may have trouble convincing the cops here in
>>> Australia to arrange for the British authorities to obtain and serve
>>> a subpoena in London -- when the subject-matter of their investigation
>>> is $400 worth of Habbo credit. (I doubt Habbo will cough up their
>>> subscriber's details without some form of legal process.)

>> We'll see...

>> Its unlikely they would be stupid enough to require anything
>> to be served in pomland etc with something so trivial.

> Who's "they"?

Habbo.

>>> My suggestion would be for the OP to fax a copy of the police
>>> report to Habbo's head office, together with a letter explaining the
>>> situation and requesting that the credit be refunded (enclosing a
>>> copy of the phone bill highlighting the fraudulent purchases, etc).

>>> He may well get fobbed off, but it'd be a better shot that expecting
>>> the cops to start an trans-national investigation over $400.

>> You havent established that any 'trans-national investigation'
>> is involved with something so trivial.

> Huh? It doesn't matter how "trivial" an investigation is.
> If it spans more than one country, it's trans-national.

You havent extablished that Habbo would require anything trans national with something so trivial.