Not sure if it applies here, but I recall reading that when they were hunting for prominent members of Saddam Hussein's regime people didn't believe the large r

Not sure if it applies here, but I recall reading that when they were hunting for prominent members of Saddam Hussein's regime people didn't believe the large rewards would ever be paid. For a lot of people who might come across a fugitive, like low-level service workers and low-level criminals, $5k might seem more tempting that $5m because the former seems like a familiar sum of money to them.