You guys are all so nice. My first thought was to gather as much personal information from these people as possible and then blackmail them into returning my

You guys are all so nice. My first thought was to gather as much personal information from these people as possible and then blackmail them into returning my notebook to me. This obviously only works when the stolen property is in a country like Iran; I doubt that you could get away with this in the US. That said, I agree with earlier posters that this is probably a b.s. story made up for SEO purposes.