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Originally Posted by Northendzone
hard to imagine hiding with that amount of money
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Step 1. Don't hide out in your own country. Someone with a hundred million bucks could easily fund safe passage (ie: get themselves smuggled in) to another country.
Step 2. Get some very convincing falsified documentation under an alias. Again, more money = more options.
Step 3. Don't draw attention to yourself in your new country of residence. Outward appearances should be as bland as wallpaper paste, as interesting as the Toyota Camry.
Step 4. Put all the money into Bitcoin, use BTC ATMs when you need cash.
Realistically, the only reason any of us have any government visibility is because we generate income and pay taxes, own assets, hold bank accounts, etc. We have SIN numbers, driver's licenses, etc.
Pulling this off in a developed nation would be a real challenge. You'd have to rent housing from private individuals (provided there are no credit checks), you could never buy a house or a car (no buying large assets in full as cash transactions over $10K get flagged, no lease or finance since they require credit histories).
All the reasons to have $100m in a developed nation are non-starters because most of these things require that you have some form of documentation and registration. Ideally, you'd move to some tropical third-world country where that you could live on a beach and not have to give a crap about anything except paying off whoever needed paying off.
... why is everyone looking at me like that? I'm sitting in the airport lounge at Pearson, I figured it would be fun to think about it.
