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100 people involved? That's a lot of people who could potentially slip up.

• lrem 10y ago
  Also, that is not exactly a life changing amount of cash, even if divided evenly only between them.
  • a3n 10y ago
    My guess is that they were minions ordered to do so by someone else. The someone else will get the bulk of the cash.
  • saalweachter 10y ago
    Eh, it's not too bad for 2 hours work. Assuming 100 people (which would be about 9 minutes per ATM -- 1 minute to withdraw, 8 minutes to travel to the next one), that's $127,000 for two hours of unskilled labor. If you assume that half of that gets passed upward, that's $63,500 for each of the 100 unskilled workers and $6.35 million for some smaller group (say, 5-10) who organized it. It's actually probably safer for the workers than the organizers -- if one of the workers is picked up, they probably have a huge incentive to roll over and give up the guy who recruited them, but the organizers probably won't get much out of giving up their 100 minions. And yeah, $50,000 probably isn't life-changing for you but if you're a teenager or 20-something without any prospects, it could be life changing. It's not "retire to an island" money, but it is "pay for college", "start a small business", "buy a car" and "move out of your craphole town to a place with economic opportunity" money. And for the organizers, $1M a piece may be retire-to-an-island money, assuming you mean "move to a cheap island" and not "buy your own island".
  • hobarrera 10y ago
    > Also, that is not exactly a life changing amount of cash, even if divided evenly only between them. 320x the minimum wage in my country. I could sure live several years with that amount of cash.