Originally Posted by
DCBob
Forget about filing a local police report. This fraud was perpetrated over state lines and the local police won't investigate it.
Not always true. Recently, I had a bunch of attempted unauthorized charges on my AmEx. Most were blocked by AmEx or the vendors, as the shipping destination wasn't in my state, nor was it a familiar address. I filed a report with my local PD, who did contact the vendors to track down the destination shipping address. They worked with the PD in that jurisdiction, quickly tracking everything to an abandoned apartment where goods were being amassed for truck transport to Mexico.
The local PD also suggested filing a report with the FBI...although not actionable, feds as well as local PD use this database to try to create correlations:
http://www.ic3.gov