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Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by simonblack on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:23PM (#31498721)
The best ROI would be to rob a bank.

Whether or not you could keep that $100K is another matter entirely.

Robbing banks with a gun is not much different from people (aka 'banks') robbing you with a fountain pen, ethically and legally speaking. Read up on the Cyprus Banks and the Bail-In. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/05/03/the-cypr...

Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by rootusrootus on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:06PM (#31499058)
You'd have to rob a lot of banks to get to $100K, however. And the FBI is very effective at catching bank robbers. It would be pretty low on my personal list of illegal ways to get money.
Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by matt_s on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:19AM (#31502912)
I went into my local BigBank branch to close out accounts since we moved to a credit union, they said they were a "cashless bank". I was in a hurry and didn't ask snarky follow-up questions like how long that branch would be there. Felt bad for the employee.

It would make for a funny movie scene that a bank robber tries to rob a bank and finds out its "cashless". Maybe they steal the pens? Or try to get them to write out a cashiers check? Then they have a problem with the printer and the triplicate forms they need to fill out.

Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by E2EEd on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:13PM (#31499891)
Go into the biz of robbing banks for profit. Like in Sneakers intro but adjusted for 2022, more automated, robotic, human-decoupled.

It'll make DHS salivate when you prove that the need for high speed, AI drone defense is greater than currently is deployed.

You'd probably sell a full stack solution with a "Jolly Bank Robber Cookbook Manual 2022" to prove the risks going fwd along with successful live field tests.

Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by muzani on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:56PM (#31498964)
Looking up the stats, there were 1,788 bank robberies in 2020. There's probably an SOP to robbing banks by now, and a SOP to dealing with them.

Tellers are trained to be very polite to bank robbers, which throws them off. Most bank robberies don't even involve a gun right away. They're written notes asking for smaller amounts of money. The clearance rate is 60% which means about 40% don't get caught.

However, before anyone sets down this path, you should probably consider that it might be easier to make $100k just working at a bank.

Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by jrandm on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:07PM (#31499843)
> might be easier [...] just working at a bank

Reminded me of this Key & Peele sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM

    Robber 2: So how do we get the money?
    Robber 1: That's the beauty of it, bro. They deposit the money into our bank accounts, week after week, month after month. They're not even gonna know they're being robbed! And then 20-30 years later, we walk out the front door like nothin' even happened.
Re:Ask HN: How would you make $100k fast? by zeuch on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:39PM (#31499287)
Are you the Sovereign Man?