What's the smallest amount of money you'd need to get to flee the country? (lemmy.world)

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So imagine this:

you owe X amount of money, and fleeing the country makes it vanish

Or you accidentally are given X amount of money, and fleeing the country is only way to keep it

Inspired by: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html (Who left over 20k. Would not bounce.)

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5684480/worker-accidentally-paid-300-times-salary-vanishes/#:~:text=Instead%2C%20the%20lucky%20man%2C%20who,seen%20or%20heard%20from%20since. (I would bounce)

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[-] Twattymctwatterson@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Generic disappear

Go to the library and study about the country you want to run to. I would pick someplace with a coast. Don't use your home computer or phone, you don't want anyone to find these searches.

Go buy a cheap laptop from a pawnshop and get a small Linux distro like Puppy or Tiny Core. Load Tor and find yourself a dark market. Buy a new identity. When your transaction is complete trash the laptop burn the USB stick you ran your Linux distro off of.

Buy a boat. Post all over social media about your boat and how you love sailing or fishing or whatever you do in your boat.

This is the hard part, go on a boat trip and at some point call in an emergency then abandon the boat. Make it look good drag out all the life vests and or sink the boat. Swim/row to shore and never ever ever ever go back to your old life.

You could do it for about $30k.

[-] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Pulling out all your money or selling your home and possessions would give you away. And a pauper with a boat would be a red flag for any investigator. You'd have to be willing to give it all up. Your family would have to believe you died.

A better option would be to slowly siphon off money and be seen frequenting a casino, or become known as a drug addict. Once you've liquidated everything and racked up tons of debt, fake a suicide. Become aberrant or hyper-religious/political. Tell everyone that you're going on a hike to "find yourself" or that you're volunteering to fight in Ukraine. Never come back.

[-] Twattymctwatterson@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, I said generic not do this exactly. It's a rough idea, not a game plan. You would need a lot of logistical things like cash on hand without using a bank to cash out. I know guys with boats that can't pay their rent so I am not so sure about the pauper with a boat angle but you could easily do it by disappearing in a national park if that's your jam. The main thing though no matter how you do it is you never ever ever ever ever ever go back to your old life in any way. Money in the bank, or long lost girlfriend, mom dies nothing.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

How 'official' are fake identities from the darknet? Is it just like a fake ID or are there corrupt countries that'd hand out genuine documents with which you could travel, withstand a check by authorities, get an insurance etc.?

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

There are some African countries that will give you a driving licence with a photo and a few details.

Good for presenting in Europe and making it too difficult for the police to bother with to issue a simple speeding fine… or so I hear.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 4 months ago

My local library requires you sign in, and your own device would need MAC address spoofing.

[-] Twattymctwatterson@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Then you could use the Linux distro with a VPN from a public wifi.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

I like the way you think.

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