My amazon fire tablet was stolen and is being used. How to get IP Adress

April 2, 2020 12:13 PM

My Amazon Fire Tablet was stolen over 4 months ago (with a ton of other sh_t in my backpack, huge financial loss) in Europe. 1. The thief or current "owner" is buying free ebooks on my amazon account 2. I have installed google play on the amazon fire tab. It was first used again today and find my device displayed the quite unique name of the WiFi network. How do I get the IP address from Google and or Amazon so that I can report it to the police?
posted by yoyo_nyc to Law & Government (5 answers total)

It's cyber fraud. Pretty sure it's the FBI that handles that sort of thing. I'd call them.
posted by summerstorm at 12:36 PM on April 2, 2020

Response by poster: I may do this. But it happened in Europe. So there would be several jurisdictions involved.
posted by yoyo_nyc at 12:37 PM on April 2, 2020

Best answer: For Google, go to device activity in the account settings, find the device, then choose "More details" and "Show IP address". I don't know of any way to get the IP address from Amazon, but you can deregister the device here. Although I would be very surprised if the police would do anything even if you have an IP address...
posted by rpn at 1:09 PM on April 2, 2020 [4 favorites]

Mod note: Couple comments removed. Asker, fine to try and get help with this issue but skip the commentary on what you think about the country it happened in or the people involved.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:58 PM on April 2, 2020 [2 favorites]

Much of the cyber and phone fraud originates outside the US. That's one reason the FBI is the best place to contact. Here's a video on reporting cyber crime.
posted by summerstorm at 8:29 PM on April 2, 2020