These FAKE cloud miners' are making off with LOTS of BTC...   What can be done to prosecute them? Who are the 'authorities' people are contacting?

I fell for this one (below) personally...  my loss is now exponentially greater (over $20k and counting). 

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/179917.0

Can we form some sort of international 'task force' ourselves? We are - broadly speaking - intelligent individuals (regardless of the fact we were conned). If we work together we can accomplish anything.

Please provide links to the proper authorities/reporting agencies so that others can file complaints and/or reports. Have the admins on this site vowed to keep any and all information they have about these criminals secret? Are we able to subpoena the domain registration companies and forums that may have ANY information as to who or where these con-artists are?

Anyone happen to already have an attorney on retainer that they can ask about anything else we can do without having to pay a "consultation" fee? I do not currently have one retained.

 Doubt the location would much matter, we just need someone with a legal mind, that may have other ideas, or know to file complaints/charges somewhere else we have not thought of.
 
Actually upon thinking about it, there are several forums out there where lawyers/legal types hang out, and sometimes answer questions if we cannot come up with anything else.

The name and address came from the email he sent to Agath, asking for a shipping price for some gear. It IS possible he gave a wrong name and address, but the IP used all through the chat logs supports him being in Indiana also. PreciousKF@c-76-16-138-211.hsd1.in.comcast.net

Also when the above is googled it comes back to this as one of the links: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fisp-finder.inetworktools.com%2Fen%2Fisp-registrar-finder%2Fisp%2Fbtcminers.net%2F&ei=3YKfUuCiHcuNkAec84FA&usg=AFQjCNH1Ba-fRdes1rEMsnXJSM5EMycI1g&sig2=PVsD7ur6fO-1hQIoAUGT_A

Wow just looked at the links. If that is true, and this is in fact him, it makes it really hard to hide, and surely brings a few new charges if he does not report where he is to authorities.

I spoke with a lawyer yesterday.  He said the first thing he urges us to do it contact law enforcement in the local area and file a complaint.  Some places require you to file an official witnessed letter, some will take it over the phone.  I have not contacted his local police department yet myself but plan to tomorrow.  There are several civil suit actions we can also take but the very first thing we should do is pursue a criminal complaint for outright theft.

I just spoke with the Lebanon IN. Police dept. They said that the way it works is that I/we have to file the complaint locally, with MY/OUR local police dept., and they would then contact the police there in Lebanon IN.

I will be doing this once I close up the store for the day, in a couple hours.

Count me in, Slightly harder as I live in UK but more than happy to make calls/emails etc

Just got done doing some minor demolition, going to have to put this off until morning, not walking into a police station in my current need-a-shower condition...lol I'll probably end up having to explain the normal..."WTF is a Bitcoin?" for 45 minutes before getting to the actual complaint.

I agree, I added my purchase to his trust and that put him to -5. Hopefully that will deter.

Coinbase responded with a "we are overwhelmed with the volume of support emails, and have not been able to get to this one"... Or something to that effect. Replied back to that they needed to look into it still.

Tried to get by the police station today, but work was spread out such that I couldn't leave for a while. Going to try again tomorrow but may have to wait until Monday. Not sure if there will be detectives there on the weekend, and I was told specifically to insist on talking to one, even if someone else took the complaint.