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29703930 No.29703930 [Reply] [Original]

If Monero is truly anonymous, wouldn't that mean it's the perfect kidnapping/extortion tool?

Just take their child or their dog, tell them to wire you a million dollars on Monero to get their beloved back. And nobody can track you.

Has it been known that any kidnapper has used Monero yet?

>> No.29704154

>>29703930
Anyone with the knowledge and resources to kidnap and ransom people worth millions of dollars already has many ways to launder money.

>> No.29704204

I preferred when the honeypot was on discord instead of here

>> No.29704297

>>29703930
>physical evidence does not exist

>> No.29704316

>>29703930
There was a norwegian billionaire that had his wife kidnapped, which demanded payment in XMR a year ago.

>> No.29704391

Jews don't value human life, not even their own, so anyone you could blackmail would never pay up anyway.

>> No.29704473
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29704473

>>29703930
>we want 5000 for your daughter
>ok here is your 2015 dollar

>> No.29704777

One of our companies clients got hacked and had to pay in monero to release password

>> No.29704948

>>29703930

>Has it been known that any kidnapper has used Monero yet?
If it's been known, then it doesnt work.

>> No.29705051

>>29704154
The riskiest part of kidnapping someone is collecting the payout. Someone has to go and collect the money. With Monero they can transfer instantly and you can release the subject wherever you want.

>> No.29705136

>>29704316
Interesting. But XMR is way less anonymous is it not?

>> No.29705188

>>29705051
But then why release the hostage? Just ask for more money instead.

>> No.29705226

>>29704777
How much did he pay?

>> No.29706528

>>29705188
it wouldn't be ethical

>> No.29706794

>>29704297
>he can't travel across the astral plane to conduct his kidnappings

>> No.29706923

>>29703930
i still cant get over the fact that they named this piece of shit "monero". it sounds like something a drunk british tourist in mexico would offer the waitress while trying to his dick sucked

>> No.29706941

>>29706528
Why being ethical when you can make ez money?

>> No.29707019

>>29705188
Why would anyone pay a second time, if they know you won't release the hostage??

>> No.29707160

>>29704316
i believe some payments were actually made in that case. the husband is the only suspect afaik but they havent taken him to court yet.

>> No.29707247

>>29707019
Because it's someone they love and they don't want to know they ended up sold to organ harvesters?

>> No.29707478

>>29707247
Why wouldn't the kidnappers sell the hostage anyway?

Option A) They sell the hostage.
Option B) You give them all your money and then they sell the hostage.

Who picks option B?

>> No.29707843

>>29706923
monero dinero go fuck yaself

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>$7.5M in Monero Demanded in Alleged Cyber Attack on Argentinian Telecom Giant
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/7-5m-in-monero-demanded-in-alleged-cyber-attack-on-argentinian-telecom-giant/

>> No.29709305

>>29705136
XMR is literally Monero you dunce

>> No.29709934

>>29707478
Your logic is flawless. But most humans don't act logically, we act emotionally. The choise is no longer easy when it is no longer hypotetic, when it's no longer happening to someone else. Why do you think /biz/ is full of dumbasses who buy high and sell low?

>> No.29710127

>>29709934
It certainly is a shit dilemma.