Well, Vru in Russian means "I lie" "I tell a lie"

Anyway, this is sooo illigal as receving stollen good. oh w8 that's what they are doing...

The fact that they have 'private data' up on display makes this seem like an exercise in scaring people into shelling out cash for something. Perhaps it's viral marketing for drive encryption or a real laptop security service. If it is real I would have thought that the whole 'I'll buy lost/stolen goods for cheap then sell them back to the owner at commission' thing is a touch illegal.

www.truecrypt.com, works great, free (make a donation good for everyone).

Laptops are usally worth a lot less than the information on it, encrypt it and get a little peace of mind.

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/d7f6cc9e616908cb036b32c94ed659a7/compdetails

Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
23/10/2009 V.R.U. LIMITED

Ok, they have changed their name recently. What did VRU Limited do?

http://www.linkedin.com/companies/vru-entertainment-pvt.-ltd._2 says:

"FILM MAKING
DOCUMENTARIES
TV SERIALS
ADs
EVENTS n MORE...."

i would hazard a quess that all the files are dummies, maybe from the marketing staff..

finding a laptop with a living allowance (lebens lauf?) application in german, in the laptop that was found in london, does not strike me as likely, ok, i know i'm simplifying things but it's just my 1/50th of a dollar..

There's one laptop that is said to be found in Pori Finland. I looked at the text files (PDF) on the laptop and did some googling. I checked only three files and those were copies of posts on three blogs in Blogspot. Furthermore, they claim that they have found the computer in August. How come one of the blog entries was not published until November? (The entry was a review of Kent's album that came out in November.)

Yet another reason to make sure that your lapstops are encrypted.

At least then if your laptop is "lost" and handed in to these people all your data isnt open to the public.

it is illegal to profit from crime in the uk. the website is breaking the law, the sellers of the data are breaking it twice.

in some ways it could be seen as blackmail as well. "pay £xxxx for your data or you'll never see it again". replace "data" with "daughter" and see how leniantly you are treated.

If this was to ensure maximum control of the desktop, without considering the loss of fracture, R is, how the size of the device is lost,''I was in a hurry this morning, ' The data connection is very. My laptop was in prison are instructed Kuenti

drashek

A not so elaborate form of fencing to me.

I am thinking about getting a self-destruct device attached to my desktop in case it got 'lost' and found, but I'm not in hurry, because it's way to big and heavy to get 'lost'.

I'm just glad I don't have a laptop, because that would be too embarrasing if that got 'lost' and found.

I've heard about finders fee before, but making that a business is just a bit too shady.. and the way they handle 'privacy'.. is this even legal?