• Location: Manchester, England.
• Date Stolen: June 28, 2011.
• Date Recovered: June 30, 2011.
• Theft: In-Home Robbery.
• Missing items: Laptop.
• Police reaction: So impressed they tweeted it!
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 24 hours.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: 3 hours.
• Final thoughts: So very, very proud!

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• Location: Hamilton, OH.
• Date Stolen: December 26, 2011.
• Date Recovered: January 15, 2012.
• Theft: Taken from Library.
• Missing items: Dell Vostro Laptop.
• Police reaction: “Unlikely we’ll find it”
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 17 days.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Pretty soon after receiving report info.
• Final thoughts: This was stolen from a public library, so it was public property paid for by tax payers & mostly used by folks who don’t have funds to own their own computer. So I was especially disappointed.

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• Location: Chile, Santiago.
• Date Stolen: December 29, 2011.
• Date Recovered: January 1, 2012.
• Theft: Home window.
• Missing items: 2 notebooks, 1 digital camera, 1 external HHD.
• Police reaction: Nice software! How does it work?
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 2 days.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: 20 days.
• Final thoughts: Now I feel SOOOO GOOOOD.

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• Location: Zurich, Switzerland.
• Date Stolen: December 31, 2011.
• Date Recovered: January 4, 2012.
• Theft: Train; after some frenetic days leading up to New Year’s Eve, the missus and I were heading for a cottage in the mountains to relax for a coupe of days – as shops are scarce up there, we had shopped for groceries and were carrying an unhealthy number of bags and suitcases. One of them didn’t make it.
• Missing items: Carrier bag with MacBook Air, Phone & Passport.
• Police reaction: Nothing at first, on January 1st & 2nd only emergency services are guaranteed :( – Then the police were delighted at the plethora of information, and slightly excited (”you know, usually we just have cases of domestic violence…”)
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 10 hours.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: As geolocation didn’t give an exact resolution, the officer immediately sent out a request for information to the Internet provider. As soon as the information came back the next morning, he paid the presumed culprit a visit (the WiFi network report was helpful in confirming the correct location). Once inside the apartment, the photograph eliminated any doubt, and the laptop was eventually recovered.
• Final thoughts: In sequence: as an idiot, as a spy, as the guy who’s prepared for everything and as one lucky “b·$%·d”·.

• Location: Veracruz, Mexico.
• Date Stolen: December 29, 2011.
• Date Recovered: January 6, 2012.
• Theft: Trespassing.
• Missing items: Macbook, Blackberry, PC.
• Police reaction: They had no clue.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 2 days.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Immediately.
• Final thoughts: I wanted to yell.

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• Location: Leeds, England.
• Date Stolen: December 11, 2011.
• Date Recovered: December 12, 2011.
• Theft: Burglary.
• Missing items: Macbook Pro and Camera.
• Police reaction: “If it wasn’t for this we probably wouldn’t have found them”.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 28 hours.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Within the hour.
• Final thoughts: Pleased, excited and relieved.

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• Location: Santiago, Chile.
• Date Stolen: October 19, 2011.
• Date Recovered: December 12, 2011.
• Theft: The door was forced when we weren’t in.
• Missing items: Two MacBooks.
• Police reaction: They had seen Prey on TV but were amazed with all the information Prey gathered. After going through some paperwork the police went looking for the thief in the reports.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: The first report came in at 18:30 and we recovered the computer at 21:30.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Within the hour.
• Final thoughts: The Police told me that Prey us a huge tool for them, in fact, they were amazed and astonished with the accuracy of the information Prey gathered. It should come installed straight from the factory on all computers!

• Location: North Yorkshire, England.
• Date Stolen: November 21, 2011.
• Theft: Break in at our home.
• Missing items: Laptop, 2 iPods, camera and a car.
• Police reaction: Very helpful but not overly optimistic. We were left confident they would do a decent job in chasing down our thief.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 1.5 weeks
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Laptop recovered by police in 3 days from first report.
• Final thoughts: It was incredibly exciting when we started getting really useful information about the location and identity of the people who had my laptop. I felt like someone off CSI! Plus lets not forget that prey led police directly to my laptop and one arrest and indirectly to my iPod and another arrest. Happily we also got the car back in one piece (although prey can’t quite take the credit for that bit, thank vigilant house holders and swift police in York for that!).

• Location: Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay
• Date Stolen: May 26, 2011
• Date Recovered: May 30, 2011
• Theft: Home
• Missing items: Macbook Air
• Police reaction: See the details below
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 24 hours
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: 4 days
• Final thoughts: See the details below.

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• Location: Hoogeveen, The Netherlands
• Date Stolen: November, 2011
• Date Recovered: Half an hour later
• Theft: Theft – pickpockers
• Missing items: Phone
• Police reaction: How does that work?
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 2 minutes
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Immediately
• Final thoughts: I put prey on my phone after this story.

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