What would you do, indeed?!
Matt Levine has a story in today's Money Stuff about banks messing up payments and sending the wrong about to the wrong people—Citibank in particular has gotten in trouble over this in recent years.
Now, the news included a school system in Maryland accidentally paying a substitute teacher $7 million... fat-finger error, paying the teacher for 73,000 work days instead of 3 (I, suppose, at $73k...?). Ooops.
Presumably nothing particularly interesting happened at the school’s administrative offices for most of that time — they didn’t know they had overpaid — though surely the discovery of the problem was exciting.
But the teacher! Imagine getting $7 million for three days of substitute teaching! Like you have the immediate question of “do I call someone or …,” but this person apparently answered that one in the negative. And then you have the second question of “do I move this into Bitcoin and flee the country,” but again no. Between those two extremes you get pretty much “well I will buy myself a nice dinner and wait to see what happens.”
So... you wait, for almost two months, and do nothing...
For ~85 BTC, I definitely pack my bags and "flee the country" LOL.
Also, 50 days is such an odd amount of time to wait... maybe you wait a few days and then reach out to your boss.... anything more and it's JUST FREAKING WEIRD.
And the substitute teacher's bank did nothing? All of a sudden 7 mil, POOF, into an account that doesn't regularly deal in those figures haha.
Nah, I would get caught/flagged by dumping WAY TOO MUCH into WAY TOO MANY exchanges WAY TOO EARLY, plus making massive cash withdrawals plus booking flights to some non-extradiction country asap.
(being a not-very-sophisticated criminal, I presume this strategy would get me caught very fast, yes?)
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