This is stupid, the reward is already $50K 1 bit coin is about $66K, why not just collect the reward....
Nothing makes any sense in this. One wonders if these ransom notes are even sent by anyone actually involved in the case.
> why not just collect the reward.... <
My (wild) guess is that the bitcoin guy knows nothing, and is running a scam.
Maybe so the kidnapper doesn't know, and can't find out who the rat was?
My guess: After listening to the retired FBI guys last night on the news and other people with knowledge of Bitcoin evidently money put into a Bitcoin ‘Wallet’ can be immediately transferred out electronically, parsed/spread out to other accounts, even many making it difficult to discover to even impossible and even then once transferred to other accounts those accounts can be immediately transferred to other accounts and so on...
Sounds like a fake looking to grab money.
Keep in mind I know NOTHING about Bitcoin other than what was said last night on the news but this sounds like what it is to me and I bet the FBI think the same.
Buncha rats out there.
The whole point of crypto is money laundering with virtually complete lack of detectability.
WHY hasn’t Savannah OFFERED A BIG REWARD TO GET HER MOTHER BACK???
Because this total scammer’s deal would be to receive the bitcoin first (thus no real info needed), figuring they wouldn’t expose their ability to track it all for so little.
Why hasn’t Savannah Guthrie upped that reward to $500,00 ?
Anonymity.
Fraudster trying to scam some money.
Maybe, the person knows who it is BUT they are afraid of the harm that might come to them IF they drop a dime on them.
IF it is someone involved in the cartels or crazy criminal they are probably afraid of this person. For good reason.
People that are crazy enough to kidnap an old lady for ransom probably will not give a second thought of killing this person too.
Possibly Savannah will kick in the extra $16,000. Pretty soon there will be an Auction for Nancy.
“This is stupid, the reward is already $50K 1 bit coin is about $66K, why not just collect the reward”
uh, because the fake fink doesn’t ACTUALLY know who the kidnapper is?