You find a suitcase with £1 million in it. What would you do
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simonrockman said:
The Spruce goose said:
buy bitcoins then sell them, lose 100k and all clean, just say you had a few thousand in earlier days, can't see it being traceable, but might take time buying them.
How do you buy the bitcoins for cash?Edited by The Spruce goose on Saturday 17th January 19:27
I woudn't do anything with it except use it as money for everything day to day. Meals out, clothes, food shopping etc. It would likely last a lifetime and mean that you can just carry on with life as normal but all of your genuine income could be spent as you pleased on holidays etc. It would be quite pleasant tbh.
Adam B said:
DannyScene said:
I'm sticking by this plan but I now want an Audi S7 for daily duties I reckon
how will you buy a £70k car with cash? Audi wont take itI'd most likely buy a used one anyway they're on Autotrader for about 35k
Frank7 said:
When I was driving my own London taxi, every few months I’d find a phone in the back, if it was unlocked I’d scroll through looking for Home, Mum, Dad, Work, etc.
I’d give my number to whoever answered, and eventually arrange a rendezvous to get it back to them.
I’d decline any reward they offered, telling them to give it to charity, and be more careful in future, if I couldn’t access the phone, I’d hand it in to the police.
The two wallets, and one ladies purse I found, I went through for contact numbers or addresses, and returned them, the ladies purse had an engagement ring in it, (don’t ask, I didn’t), and a library card, I returned the purse to the woman in Putney, her husband answered the door, and said, “Hang on mate, my wife will want to thank you.”
When they came back, he forced a bottle of vodka on me, I didn’t want a reward, but I was grateful.
Neither of the two wallets had much cash in them, maybe £30-£35 each, I may have kept that if I couldn’t have traced the owners, same with the cash in the suitcase, the cynic in me can imagine handing cash in, and next day the copper on the desk’s mate claiming it.
I'll bet there was an awkward conversation between the husband and wife about why her engagement ring was in her purse! I’d give my number to whoever answered, and eventually arrange a rendezvous to get it back to them.
I’d decline any reward they offered, telling them to give it to charity, and be more careful in future, if I couldn’t access the phone, I’d hand it in to the police.
The two wallets, and one ladies purse I found, I went through for contact numbers or addresses, and returned them, the ladies purse had an engagement ring in it, (don’t ask, I didn’t), and a library card, I returned the purse to the woman in Putney, her husband answered the door, and said, “Hang on mate, my wife will want to thank you.”
When they came back, he forced a bottle of vodka on me, I didn’t want a reward, but I was grateful.
Neither of the two wallets had much cash in them, maybe £30-£35 each, I may have kept that if I couldn’t have traced the owners, same with the cash in the suitcase, the cynic in me can imagine handing cash in, and next day the copper on the desk’s mate claiming it.
Edited by Frank7 on Friday 7th September 13:53
Butter Face said:
I woudn't do anything with it except use it as money for everything day to day. Meals out, clothes, food shopping etc. It would likely last a lifetime and mean that you can just carry on with life as normal but all of your genuine income could be spent as you pleased on holidays etc. It would be quite pleasant tbh.
Except they change the bank notes every so often. You'd be forced to do something with it before you ended up paying it in across a bank counter. If you do that the game would be up, probably.I've just had a letter through from Barclays saying that paying in cash is going to be slightly harder from now on. I am sure terrorists the world over are really worried.
So said:
Except they change the bank notes every so often.
Use them until they are changed then wait for 40 years then sell them for 15 times the value...https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bank-England-British-poun...
So said:
I've just had a letter through from Barclays saying that paying in cash is going to be slightly harder from now on. I am sure terrorists the world over are really worried.
That's got sod all to do with laundering moneyThat's just them wanting to do less work for the same charges to make more profit.
They don't really understand what people might expect from a bank. Cash is admin and admin costs.
I'd make reasonable efforts to find out if any poor local businessman or elderly widow has somehow lost £1m in cash en route to the bank/tesco/etc.
Assuming I heard nothing - It's highly unlikely that anyone legit would be carrying that amount of money though, so I would assume it would be the results of a criminal enterprise and thus I'd have no guilt about performing my duty as a law-abiding citizen and seizing said cash so that criminality does not prosper from it.
In terms of what I'd do with it, good old Walter White hit the nail on the head. Open an expensive executive car wash, feed the cash through it for a few years into accounts, then retire and live relatively comfortably, if not quite like a professional footballer.
Assuming I heard nothing - It's highly unlikely that anyone legit would be carrying that amount of money though, so I would assume it would be the results of a criminal enterprise and thus I'd have no guilt about performing my duty as a law-abiding citizen and seizing said cash so that criminality does not prosper from it.
In terms of what I'd do with it, good old Walter White hit the nail on the head. Open an expensive executive car wash, feed the cash through it for a few years into accounts, then retire and live relatively comfortably, if not quite like a professional footballer.
I think the dying old relative is the best idea if they are up for it.
1) Make you sole beneficiary.... Saying left you there life savings under the bed. (unspecified amount)
2) Wash the cash if the new plastic notes.. get rid of case...
3) Take some of the cash to use day to day until they snuff it..
Of course if they have a tumble and go into care and the cash is discovered it all gets spent on care fees..
The just risk it on the ferry to Switzerland idea is another good one.. Set up account deposit cash.. Job done..
1) Make you sole beneficiary.... Saying left you there life savings under the bed. (unspecified amount)
2) Wash the cash if the new plastic notes.. get rid of case...
3) Take some of the cash to use day to day until they snuff it..
Of course if they have a tumble and go into care and the cash is discovered it all gets spent on care fees..
The just risk it on the ferry to Switzerland idea is another good one.. Set up account deposit cash.. Job done..
Vaud said:
Except the Swiss share details as much as anyone these days. They don't mind keeping money but they prefer a wire trail.
Was going to say this, the good old days of the anonymous Swiss bank account are long gone. There are however quite a few other countries in Europe where you could quite easily persuade a bank manager to open you an account without too many questions asked. Buy a property with the money in that country, rent it out for a while then sell it in a year or two and hey presto, clean money.
KingNothing said:
Forgot this thread was from so long ago, thought it was only last year or something.
If the notes were new polymer ones you should have quite a while to spend them before the problem of obsolescence came up now anyways
The obsolescence has, I suspect, more to do with flushing out people with cash stashed away than it does with durability.If the notes were new polymer ones you should have quite a while to spend them before the problem of obsolescence came up now anyways
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