How could one benefit from an error like this and escape with all the money? Transfer to an offshore account and head to a country with no extradition to Australia? Would that work?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Have the friend fence the goods. (In the case of diamonds, intentionally write down the serial numbers incorrectly so that your friend can launder them without being caught.)
Put the cleaned money into an offshore account owned by a shell company with identity protection. Contract your services to said shell company with a very high rate.
Or something to that extent.
or just say you lost your private key.
The point of the insurance step is, effectively, “doubling your money”, so that you can give half of it back, and not be in debt.
Open support ticket with crypto.com saying you've been phished and that the funds are gone. Make sure to capture in writing their response that funds cannot be recovered.
Wait for them to try to recover funds. Forward them their own email and explain that you did return the funds but then they were lost and can't be recovered.
I don't think you'd need to defend yourself against a state level actor here. 10M gone missing from a crypto exchange isn't exactly a national security event. In the crypto world I think that's just called Tuesday.
It costs a lot less than $10M if you want to move to Thailand and live off-grid in some remote area. You can probably do that for a lot less than $100,000, including a Thailand Elite Visa. If that's part of your plan, then just hold onto the money and earn interest, or maybe give it back and hope for a reward. Or just save up the money normally, it's not that much.
I wonder if it's still possible to change your identity in a developed country. Maybe you could move to a new country and start using a fake passport to establish your new identity over time. But I think that stopped being possible sometime in the 90s or early 2000s.
I found it stressful enough just to move to a new country and get a visa legally. I can't imagine also worrying about getting extradited and sent to prison at any moment. Sounds like a terrible life. I wouldn't keep the money.
EDIT: Just reading some of the other replies, and wow, there are some genius criminals in here. Maybe I would take the money!
[1] https://www.abnamro.nl/nl/prive/rente/negatieve-rente.html
company gone, no entity to pursue the lawsuit.
- log to your crypto.scam account from 'behind 7 proxies' using free wifi
- transfer funds to some crypto mixer, then multiple private wallets
- delete account or change password
- zero fill storage, throw away laptop
- few days later report losing access to your crypto.scam assets
- wait couple of years
They mastered victim-blaming.