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I don't see what this has to do with the 'perfect crime'. She just sued a company in court and won. However... thinking about it. You could think of a criminal organisation that convinces a large company to do something borderline or illegal. For example, convincing the tobacco companies to put...

What would that change to the discussion if I was Stephen King or Rowland?? (I'm not :) ) I thought people here would be a bit more inventive. As someone mentions , committing a crime that turns in 500 mln (with a plausible scenario) is not the difficult part. The difficult part is the exit...

It may surprise you, but hardly any author publishes his book "as is". That's what editors/translators are for. So you can write a book in whatever level of English/German/French/Spanish and hand it over to an editor/translator, who will turn it into perfect English or Hindi.

Well, it does. If you put in 30 mln and you trade with a leverage of 80 and the stock goes down 20% you make 480 mln profit.

And? What's the plot? My story is about 'the perfect crime'. So it is not the good guy that wins, but the crooks that get away with it.

This is the typical James Bond scenario. But all James Bond scenarios are completely unrealistic (but entertaining). If you look at oceans 11/12/13 it gets closer to reality, because they rob a casino, using some magical gadgets to circumvent the security systems. The only thing which is not...

I agree. In the not too distant future, money in it's current form (bills, coins) won't exist anymore. Which means that ALL your transactions will be traceable. Which makes it even more difficult in the future to transform a ransom in 'anonymous' money . And which is another reason to place the...

Nop, didn't know about these. Just looked it up. Might be a nice idea! Thanks

Well, I'm at my 10th book and I make a decent living from my sales. I don't know if that qualifies as writer/author. But you can call it "creative writing" if you want :)

Yes, but how to withdraw 500 mln? Just walk up to your bank and ask them to fill up the truck outdoors? :)

In first instance, I had placed the story in today's world and had selcted Google as the 'victim company'. But after some research and talking with my lawyers, it turned out that that would be a very bad idea. If I would like to use a large worldwide communication conglomerate I would have to...

Hmm, one one hand, future technology can modify ways crimes are committed (or pursued by government). But again, I would like it to stay "plausible". I mean, I could say that the crooks ask for a ransom of 500 mln to be wired into bank account X, and from there, they will use the latest and...

Nice idea: This one gets into the scenario: ransom. So I would create some major havoc in a multi billion dollar company and than ask a ransom to stop it. Problem: How do I cash in the ransom? If I would ask for cash, I would get a truckload of marked bills. If I would ask for a wire, it could...

Well, I somehow agree with you. I can use some things/items which are not plausible yet. But I don't want to turn it into a James Bond scenario where he is flying to the moon and noone asks the question how he got there and why he's not floating around. In short, I want it to be a story where...