How long will it be until people realize cryptocurrency is a problem?
You do realize that kidnappings happened before bitcoin, right?
Wife of Norwegian billionare kidnapped, €9M crypto ransom
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Re: Wife of Norwegian billionare kidnapped, €9M crypto ransom
#32If I were worth 120 million and my wife were ransomed for 9 mil, I'd pay the 9 ransom to get her back, and then I would put another 9 mil bounty on the heads of the people who kidnapped her.
Or you could not follow hollywood movies and be grateful to have your wife back and use your money to move on with life safely and make the most of it.
Added bonus - you won't have to deal with a cowboy accidentally killing someone's son who didn't do it and then having to deal with annoying parents with a dead son suing you.
Re: Wife of Norwegian billionare kidnapped, €9M crypto ransom
#33This is terrible. I wonder, what is the comment about the ransom note intended to signify? That the kidnappers are not Norwegian? ISTM that extreme confidence would be required to commit a crime of this nature in a foreign country.
First as far as the note, I would not assume that the individuals responsible are foreign or domestic based on the content. Something as simple as Google Translate can provide pretty good obfuscation, if you are fluent in Norwegian even better (I however am wholly unfamiliar with the language so will use a different example) --- Original English text: "Unless five million dollars are transferred to the following numb…
*very willing to bet
Freudian slip or something.