A Simple Plan, and comments on other scenarios where someone finds a large amount of money and tries to keep it
Enda80
people try to keep money found lying in the street, and it occurred to
me that, if I had a psychological profile leaving me sociopathic and
dishonest enough to keep the money, but still risk averse and cautious
enough not to overlook the need to cover my tracks, I would rent a
storage locker a day's drive away under a fake name. That way, if a
burglar ever broke into the storage locker and discovered the money,
nobody could trace it to me, since I rented it under a fake name. I
could also monitor for such events, contacting the storage locker
company using a payphone (since cellphones numbers could get
traced).
I would pay for it using a money order, since setting up a bank
account under a false name would prove quite difficult and possibly
not feasible in these days of the Patriot Act and integrated
databases. In previous days, the Day of the Jackal Fraud worked (the
method of impersonating a dead child, the reasoning entailed that
birth records but not death records would get checked by other
organizations; the film Highlander uses a variant) but today they
cottoned on to it.
Dave
1. Most places are going to want to see some ID before they'll rent
you a storage locker. An out of town address - they'll definately
want to see ID. Especially if you pay with cash or the money order.
2. Money orders can be traced. Authorities can find out where they
were sold, and when. Most places that sell money order have security
cameras.
3. And specking of security cameras, most storage places have them as
well, so your picture, car, and license plate are now recorded.
4. You;d be lucky to find a pay phone now, and by 2010 they'll only
be in museums.
Technology changes the world. Look at all the crappy movie plots that
became obsolete with the advent of cell phones.
dave
mikey
A life of crime sure ain't what it used to be. Those were the days.