FEBRUARY 2020 FRAUD OF THE MONTH
“Clifton Clowers plants Irish flowers”
1. OK, so this is not exactly a fraud, but it is a crime, with an ironic twist
2. OK, so it’s Irish. So am I.
In early 2017 Clifton Collins, an Irish drug dealer, had a dilemma. Where could he hide the codes of his illicit €55m (£46m) bitcoin fortune.
His solution was to print them on piece of paper and stash it in the aluminum cap of a fishing rod case he kept at his rented home.
And Then…
Police arrested Collins after finding €2,000 worth of cannabis in his car. He was sentenced to five years in jail. The landlord of the house had it cleared out. All of Collins’ possessions—fishing rod included—were taken to a dump. Since waste from the dump goes to Germany and China to be incinerated, the fishing rod case has never been found.
The codes are missing, which means the accounts cannot be accessed.
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