78-Year-Old Woman Caught Hiding Almost $41,000 Cash in Her Carry-On and Undergar

[epere]

78-Year-Old Woman Caught Hiding Almost $41,000 Cash in Her Carry-On and Undergarments Before Flight

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[Candystripes]

Are you going to link us to an article or something? lol or just say the title in the thread.

What is the point of this?

[zhinkk]

Are you going to link us to an article or something? lol or just say the title in the thread.

What is the point of this?

Yeah... no clue why he didn't post an article lol. but with a google search I found this:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/09/78-year-old-woman-caught-hiding-almost-41000-cash-in-her-carry-on-and-undergarments-before-flight-now-guess-who-wants-to-keep-it-all/

[Candystripes]

Are you going to link us to an article or something? lol or just say the title in the thread.

What is the point of this?

Yeah... no clue why he didn't post an article lol. but with a google search I found this:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/09/78-year-old-woman-caught-hiding-almost-41000-cash-in-her-carry-on-and-undergarments-before-flight-now-guess-who-wants-to-keep-it-all/

Aha thanks. Never seen a thread about a news article, but no links or quotes xD

I find it sketchy actually, a Senior member wouldn't make a post like that.

[Katarina]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

[chanz]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

In what world are you from ?

[Hfleer]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

If you don't declare it --> yes.

It is called capital control.

[Katarina]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

If you don't declare it --> yes.

It is called capital control.

So I dont understand, why don't she declare it?

[Hfleer]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

If you don't declare it --> yes.

It is called capital control.

So I dont understand, why don't she declare it?

MAybe because she hasn't paid taxes for it?

There are several reasons for this actually.

[Katarina]

Is it even illegal to bring money?

In what world are you from ?

Earth , I rarely travel so I dont know....

[TaunSew]

There's television shows about airport security and border offenses.

Sneaking in money happens all the time and it's largely people from developing countries where capital control forbids them from transferring funds abroad.
 
You can essentially get $USD cash anywhere these days but sending money from your bank account to an account abroad is another.

Bitcoin is a theoretical way to get around this (like all the Chinese who were buying in 2013) but this is an obscure technology when considering there's only like 1 million users.

[Lethn]

Buy VPS in Hong Kong or some other country where America has little influence, set up a wallet, get your flight set up to where ever you want to go, bring a laptop with nothing suspicious on it, reach your country, get to where you're staying, load up a Bitcoin wallet on your laptop, connect to your VPS, retrieve your money.

Capital control defeated Now you could just use an online wallet, but I wouldn't dare leave it their for an extended period of time especially if going to a foreign country, don't forget to use a VPN to connect to your VPN if your country has become particularly paranoid!

[Hfleer]

Buy VPS in Hong Kong or some other country where America has little influence, set up a wallet, get your flight set up to where ever you want to go, bring a laptop with nothing suspicious on it, reach your country, get to where you're staying, load up a Bitcoin wallet on your laptop, connect to your VPS, retrieve your money.

Capital control defeated Now you could just use an online wallet, but I wouldn't dare leave it their for an extended period of time especially if going to a foreign country, don't forget to use a VPN to connect to your VPN if your country has become particularly paranoid!

Just use an BIP38 encrypted private key. You could post that key online, still noone could crack it

[Lethn]

You NEVER say something like that on the internet Hfleer lol I picked a VPS because you could store it in relative safety and privately as opposed to just leaving it floating around on the internet, if you wanted to get really radical if you have a permanent place to stay you could set up a laptop or computer and remote desktop it then send the money over there that way and shut the computer down.

[Hfleer]

You NEVER say something like that on the internet Hfleer lol I picked a VPS because you could store it in relative safety and privately as opposed to just leaving it floating around on the internet, if you wanted to get really radical if you have a permanent place to stay you could set up a laptop or computer and remote desktop it then send the money over there that way and shut the computer down.

But it is true. Some guy posted a BIP38 wallet with over 1 BTC in it and it only has 4 digit password, it is still not cracked!

I will try to find it.

[Hfleer]

Found it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zkcya/lets_see_how_long_it_takes_to_crack_a_4_digit/

[Lethn]

Hmmm, that's promising, but I still wouldn't someone will find away around it eventually if they're determined enough lol offline is always the best defence against hackers, point is, far better for the Bitcoins to not be there in the first place and then they can't get stolen.

[Hfleer]

Hmmm, that's promising, but I still wouldn't someone will find away around it eventually if they're determined enough lol offline is always the best defence against hackers, point is, far better for the Bitcoins to not be there in the first place and then they can't get stolen.

Yes, but the trick with BIP38 is that to try out passwords, you need a GPU/CPU that does work. 1 try takes about 10 seconds, so you can't really bruteforce it. Very safe.

[boraf]

78-Year-Old Woman Caught Hiding Almost $41,000 Cash in Her Carry-On and Undergarments Before Flight

Where is she heading? She might not be aware of the 10k capital control law.

[jaberwock]

What's significant in the article to justify the topic?

Just another money smuggler that got caught, happens every day.