Posted on 12/04/2022 12:04:09 AM PST by zeestephen
The exchange mistakenly transferred $10.5 million, rather than $100, to Thevamanogari Manivel's account in May 2021 after entering the wrong figure in the payment field...Manivel, 40, was apprehended at Melbourne airport carrying a large amount of cash and luggage, and a one-way ticket to Malaysia...
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Play dumb for a year. If they don’t catch their mistake, your home free.
FYI
Does this person have a middle name? Probably Gobhfdsdfghhyrfvjoo.
It’s stealing. No way around that.
If he had given it to the DNC he would have been praised on national television.
I disagree about calling it outright theft. The guy requested money, they sent him money. Morally lacking, yes. An honest person would have contacted Crypto.inc and arranged a correction. But it is said that everyone’s honesty has a price. I suspect that $10MM would blow right by many folks honesty threshold.
I would have immediately deposited the money in a high-yield instrument and waited for Crypto to ask for their money back. Then argue with them for as long as I could before initiating the transfer for the original deposit amount. In the meantime I would be earning about $1,400 per day interest.
Nothing dishonest abut that at all.
It is always the fault of the citizen...never the fault of the institution.
If I left a bag of cash on someone’s door step, would that person be charged with a crime for stealing my money? You know they would not be.
You’ll need my address.
I disagree.
Did he earn the money? No.
If it wasn’t an outright gift, it was theft, pure and simple.
AFA your point on earning interest on $10M before whomever it was that sent the $ in the first place attempts to get it back, well, that’s between you and God.
Cheers, ‘Pod
Yeah you see stories like this, couple months ago a bank made an error and deposited 250k in some couple’s account and they instead of letting the bank know went on a spending spree till the bank figured out the mistake and arrested them.
Having a windfall dumped on you is all good and fine, but one must think VERY HARD as to the implications of trying to take advantage of it.
There was a true story about a guy who got his hands on a bunch of cocaine, probably worth over $1M (abandoned by a cartel). He then got in contact with some shady people to distribute it. The FBI got wind of it, and arrested him. They later interviewed the shady guy and he said “Of course I was going to kill him, once I got the drugs”.
A couple (politicians)?
“Nothing dishonest abut that at all.“
Oh bullshit. You’d see plenty that’s dishonest about it if the error were against you. And in that case you’d be right. You ve stolen the value to make money that the actual owner has every right to.
If you spent the money, just write or say that you spent the money - and not one word more.
In a criminal trial, they have to prove you knew it was not your money. If you make or write no statements, and if you refuse to testify, the prosecution has nothing to work with, unless you made obvious attempts to conceal the money or conceal your spending.
The civil law part is more tricky. You can be compelled to give a deposition and to testify - both times under oath.
In a civil trial, just keep it simple. If they ask you where you thought the money came from, you just say, "I never thought about that. I thought it was my money."
Never deviate. Give them the same two sentences for every question! In a civil trial, you only need two or three jurors on your side to get a new trial, or, the financial institution just gives up.
Mistakenly = Stupidity
A lot of that going around now days
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