"A lowly, underpaid teller who worked part-time at a jeweler to help make ends meet had become suspicious of the Banco Angola e Metropole. The Escudo notes he r

"A lowly, underpaid teller who worked part-time at a jeweler to help make ends meet had become suspicious of the Banco Angola e Metropole. The Escudo notes he received were never in numerical order (Reis’s plan to shuffle the banknotes to avoid detection actually caused detection),[...]" Rats. The Germans got caught with the WWII tank serial numbers, this guy sidesteps that (years before), gets caught. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.