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Especially with a frankly embarrassingly poor attempt to place distance between himself and the payouts. He picked his own brother and a close family friend?
by huebnerob 9y ago
Especially with a frankly embarrassingly poor attempt to place distance between himself and the payouts. He picked his own brother and a close family friend? Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned surprise and a new jackpot winning ticket to cash out, figuring they could direct deposit it along with his paycheck.
Really makes you wonder how many moderately intelligent people out there are successfully running schemes like this and just never arouse suspicion.
- lazerpants 9y agoAs a thought exercise, what do you think the minimum distance between the cheater and the payout would need to be in order to avoid detection?
- TearsInTheRain 9y agoat minimum a bacon number of 2
- nasredin 9y agoAKA Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
- bluGill 9y agoHigh enough that you can't fully trust the guy getting the payout to share. If someone you just vaguely know made you an offer to get this payout would you accept it or turn them in? Most of us reading this make enough money that we can afford to be honest in cases like this, so it is a moral question only - are you really dishonest enough to cheat?
- 0xfeba 9y agoYeah I'd accept that, without much hesitation.
- twothamendment 9y agoI don't know if distance matters. Let's say he found the perfect stranger who agrees to this. I think the bigger problem would be how do they exchange $7,000,000 in a way that nobody will notice?
- falsedan 9y agoMoney-laundering is cheap and easy.
- wolco 9y agoThe family friend would have been fine. The problem was not enough legwork. That person should have played those numbers for a few months or at least weeks before hand.
- falsedan 9y ago> Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned surprise and a new jackpot winning ticket to cash out, figuring they could direct deposit it along with his paycheck. Now this is a prestige TV series I would watch.