Absolute’s Top Recoveries of the Week

Even when class isn’t in session, universities are a hotspot for opportunistic computer thieves.  Absolute saw a number of campus thefts over the summer months, helping to comprise some of this week’s top recoveries:

Location: Iona College, NY
Date Recovered: September 8, 2009

Scenario: Laptop stolen from student’s dorm room. Absolute determined that the stolen computer was still on campus and that the unauthorized user was in fact at Iona student. Campus security questioned the identified student and recovered the laptop.

Location: Kaplan University, IA
Date Recovered: September 9, 2009

Scenario: Laptop stolen from university common room. Absolute began tracing its unauthorized user – a fellow student who unknowingly received stolen property after purchasing the machine from a friend. When approached by police, the unauthorized user ironically reported that he had just purchased Computrace LoJack for Laptops and was planning to install it that evening. The laptop was recovered and returned to its rightful owner.

Location: University of Washington, DC
Date Recovered: August 26, 2009

Scenario: Days after it was stolen from a DC dorm room, Absolute traced a laptop to a Louisiana university campus. A visit from police revealed the computer’s unauthorized user had purchased the machine on the street for less than $200 – a scenario which landed the user charges for possession of stolen property.

Location: University of Houston, TX
Date Recovered: September 9, 2009

Scenario: Laptop stolen from the university loading dock and soon after traced to an unauthorized user all the way up in New York. The new user had recently purchased the computer from an online classified site and unfortunately, and unknowingly, received stolen property in the process. Police have a number of suspects, and continue their investigation.

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