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His was one of the vehicles police in Toronto said were plucked by “someone other than a car owner.”
My car was stolen in Toronto, but my internet provider claims the vehicle is owned by a Canadian company. https://t.co/UKqZPB13Ti pic.twitter.com/LInu4GknaA — Kevin Donovan (@kevdonovan) March 13, 2018
My vehicle was stolen in Toronto but my internet provider claims the vehicle is owned by a Canadian company https://t.co/5SMGJMZebv — Kevin Donovan (@kevdonovan) March 13, 2018
It’s actually a Bolivian company called SpliethakCar, said Kevin Donovan, a Toronto blogger and former Toronto police officer who is using the resources of police, internet and social media to hunt down his St. John’s, N.L., company and the people who stole his car.
He said he got a note a week after the March 8 theft saying his car, an Infiniti Q60 GTS, was being tracked to the Canadian border in Halifax, and “not just in the Burlington area, the entire province of Nova Scotia is where they were.”
The car was traced to a port and then to Dubai — the destination of the car’s owner, Donovan said.
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Donovan said he traced the car to the UAE — the destination of the car’s owner, Donovan said.
Donovan said he tracked the car to a port and then to Dubai — the destination of the car’s owner, Donovan said.
The authorities in Dubai traced the IP address back to an internet provider based in British Columbia, Ont., and referred Donovan to his car’s owner, who told him she had “gone rogue” and transferred ownership of the car from Nova Scotia to Alberta.
The owner said she was disconnected from the service provider and that her bank account was at risk if her car was not returned, Donovan said.
Donovan said he traced the car to a port and then to Dubai — the destination of the car’s owner, Donovan said.
The authorities in Dubai traced the IP address back to an internet provider based in British Columbia, Ont., and referred Donovan to his car’s owner, who told him she had “gone rogue” and transferred ownership of the car from Nova Scotia to Alberta.
“We sent the customer service, you know, in-person the actual dead email address, I think it was an IP address, and that was the only connection I’ve been able to get to this until now,” Donovan said on the show.
Donovan said he thinks whoever stole his car was using the internet to, well, rent it.
“They had the car, they were up and running on the Internet,” he said. “They were getting charged to rent the car as well.”
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