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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by derefr on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:05AM (#32646511)
Convert the value into high-value commodities (e.g. gold, diamonds); get those insured; and then have a friend steal them from you. Collect the insurance money. (You’ll use this to repay the transfer.)

Have the friend fence the goods. (In the case of diamonds, intentionally write down the serial numbers incorrectly so that your friend can launder them without being caught.)

Put the cleaned money into an offshore account owned by a shell company with identity protection. Contract your services to said shell company with a very high rate.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by mouzogu on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @04:19AM (#32647937)
you dont need to do all that. just convert it all to monero and say you lost your private key.

or just say you lost your private key.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by derefr on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:04AM (#32650606)
You still owe the money back at that point; it converts into a debt, that can be further converted into a lien on your assets. (Also, I think you missed the part where this story is about fiat money, not crypto.)

The point of the insurance step is, effectively, “doubling your money”, so that you can give half of it back, and not be in debt.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by justinator on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:17AM (#32646589)
Go on: do you have other, "friends" that specialize in breaking the legs of snitches?
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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by Maursault on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:42PM (#32654189)
Of course not. What are you implying? I have great affinity for the legs of snitches. They're very nice legs, and I certainly wouldn't want to see anything to happen to them.
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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by antisthenes on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:16AM (#32646580)
Wasn't this just the plot of Heat (1995) ?

Or something to that extent.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by Markoff on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:43AM (#32647699)
Van Zant didn't get them stolen, he just used the opportunity offered by the thieves.
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