• Location: San Antonio, Texas
• Date Stolen: April 23, 2012
• Date Recovered: May 31, 2012
• Theft: Car window smashed
• Missing items: Backpack with Macbook, iPod, Calculators, Textbooks
• Police reaction: Typical smash and grab, told me to try looking around craigslist or flea markets.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: About a month
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: About a week after first report, when several reports came in they took action the next day and found it.
• Final thoughts: I was surprised, I didn’t think I would hear from it again.

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• Location: A major US city.
• Date Stolen: April 28, 2012
• Date Recovered: April 29, 2012
• Theft: From an unattended vehicle.
• Missing items: MacBook
• Police reaction: I filed a police report and waited. After I started getting Prey’s reports, I called 911, cops didn’t come, so I flagged an officer on the street who was surprised, and interested as I showed him the reports on my smartphone but didn’t know what to do..
  Since the reports pinged 2 locations, a few miles from each other which meant it was impossible as nothing can move that quickly, and one of the locations was clearly wrong.. the first report showed one
  location, the 2nd showed another about 5 miles away, and the reports flip flopped back and forth. Police detective said, ‘what am I supposed to do without an address, a general vicinity is not enough’
  but with my insistence, we went to the precinct to speak to the detective. Later, using information from the user’s actions, (and the IP address) they were able to determine which location it was. I was not given too many details though as to what or how they got it back.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 2.5 hours.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: As soon as I walked into the precinct with the reports on my phone.
• Final thoughts: Amazing. I felt it should work and it could, but then
  as it happened it was really surreal to be watching what was happening in real time.

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• Location: Portsmouth, England.
• Date Stolen: April 8, 2012
• Date Recovered: April 9, 2012
• Theft: House Burglary.
• Missing items: 13″ Macbook
• Police reaction: They were very impressed that this app existed and worked. After telling them about it, I later heard the officer recommended it around the office!
• Time it took for first report to arrive: The first report arrived roughly 5 hours after the burglary.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Immediately! I was initially dubious as to whether they would take it seriously, or even be allowed to take action on this basis. When I phoned them with the information after receiving the first report, they sent an officer over to me, and a team over to the house the laptop was located at.
• Final thoughts: Ecstatic! I had hoped the laptop would be used and provide reports, but tried not to get my hopes up in case it didn’t work. However it surpassed all my expectations.

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• Location: Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Date Stolen: March 21, 2012
• Date Recovered: March 21, 2012
• Theft: Office break-in.
• Missing items: 2 MacBooks, 2 pc’s
• Police reaction: How could you get all that info?.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 4 hours
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Within 2 hours
• Final thoughts: See story!

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• Location: Stony Brook, NY
• Date Stolen: February 14, 2012
• Date Recovered: March 2, 2012
• Theft: Stolen out of dorm room.
• Missing items: MacBook
• Police reaction: It’s probably going to be sold in Manhattan.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 10 days
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Immediately
• Final thoughts: This program is ridiculously amazing!

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• Location: Arizona, USA.
• Date Stolen: March 20, 2012.
• Date Recovered: March 20, 2012.
• Theft: Theft from house.
• Missing items: Macbook.
• Police reaction: “Thanks for doing my job”.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: 15 minutes.
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Within 30 minutes of the first report.
• Final thoughts: Everyone needs to get this program now

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• 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: Toronto, Canada
• Date Stolen: Sept 27th, 2011
• Date Recovered: Sept 28th, 2011
• Theft: Break and Enter at my store, an Apple Authorized Service Provider
• Missing items: 2 laptops, 1 x 17″ MacBook Pro, 1 x 13″ MacBook Pro
• Police reaction: Police came and took a report, dusted for fingerprints etc. Prey report arrived while the fingerprint & photograph office was here.
• Time it took for first report to arrive: Reported missing at 11am, report came in at 9pm
• Once received, time it took for police to recover it: Provided police with photo, address and name of person who was using my laptop (I was able to see his name/his computer name in the Finder sidebar via the screen shot Prey took). The police returned both laptops to me less than 48 hours after they had been stolen.
• Final thoughts: I definitely felt like Batman for a day or two.

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