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Originally Posted by KW5413
Sorry to say that No one will go after them. Not enough $$$ involved. I won't get into the very long story but, my card was clipped from the same Hotel, twice over 6 weeks, near Midway Airport in Chicago. 1st visit I suspected the Hotel was the source. The card was cancelled / replaced. 6 weeks later I stayed at the same hotel and used the new card only for the hotel stay. Sure 'nuff, that card got clipped, as well. Over the two incidents the total theft(s) were over $ 20,000. I informed the MC Fraud Dept. that I pretty much proved the source and I would be happy to testify when they catch the perp. I was told they likely would not pursue it since there "wasn't enough $$$ involved"! I then contacted Holiday Inn Corporate Fraud Dept and they said they would get back with me. Never happened.
Most of the charges were for on-line purchase of jewelry and coins. All illegal charges were culled from my account and they just overnighted yet another card.
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It sounds like you are talking about two different investigations. Most likely, the bank/CC company will not go after the suspect(s). However, where Gopapa lives, it's much smaller than Chicago. They may actually go after the suspect(s) in his case. Bigger agencies, most likely will not do a lot of follow up investigations. I can tell you that when I got those cases, we would go get the video of the suspect(s) and then make a BOLO (be on the look out) for the patrol coppers. If there was a license plate, well then things went a little farther, until we got an arrest or came to a dead end. Sometimes the stores wouldn't even give us the videos, Starbucks was notorious for that. They wanted search warrants, and quite honestly, we weren't going to go through the hassle of getting a search warrant just for videos.