Me: Here is what happened to me, I'd like to file a police report.
Police: Well, with these internet scams, the fraudster is usually in another country, meaning we can't really do anything about it.
Me: They used perfect German, used information that I only ever provided into a non-public database of a German-based business that must have had a breach of some sort. The fraudster also used pictures of apartments in Germany that must have been taken here.
Police: Well, still. The person actually doing all of that could have been doing all of that from another country. Usually Russia or China or something.
Me [thinking to myself]: Yeah, Russia, or China, or some country where law enforcement generally presumes, even against all evidence, that any and all cybercrime is happening outside their jurisdiction and therefore not doing any law enforcement at all when it comes to cybercrime. Like what is happening right here right now.
Me: Well, I realize that nobody is going to start an investigation into this specific thing that happened here, but still: Isn't anyone at least compiling a database so that, once patterns become bigger and more apparent, an investigation of sorts may become warranted, etc?
Police: Nope. Nobody doing that. You can file a report. But I can tell you right now that nobody is going to look at it or do anything with it. Also, we kind of have more important things to do, here at the station. I mean: It's your choice. I can't stop you. Just telling you how it is.
Me: Okay, thank you, goodbye.