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How can people be so good at making money, but yet so clueless about OPSEC? > But after the police knocked on the door on the weatherboard home in June, McIvor
by mirimir 7y ago
How can people be so good at making money, but yet so clueless about OPSEC?
> But after the police knocked on the door on the weatherboard home in June, McIvor handed them the key codes to unlock more than $6m worth of various cryptocurrencies.
Ummm, why would he do that? Was he perhaps hoping that they'd go away if he just gave them the money?
> Detective Senior Sergeant Keith Kay, the head of the Asset Recovery Unit in the Waikato, said his team became involved after a tip from the Inland [sic] Revenue Service in the United States.
> The IRS had received "Suspicious Activity Reports" from PayPal, the online payment service, which tax officials traced to McIvor in New Zealand.
> ...
> The money was allegedly deposited into his bank accounts from international wire transfers, PayPal, and another online payment service called Stripe.
I can't imagine how anyone could think that would work out well.
- justinjlynn 7y agoMost criminals aren't criminal geniuses.
- mraudiobook_com 7y agoPlot twist, that was his plausible deniability wallet (all us early adopters have one) that holds about 10% of the stash. I bet the guy is sitting on a cool $55 million when he gets out.