Had EurobillTracker already been contacted by Europe Police?

Esmiland · Post by **Esmiland** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:02 pm

Tracing the code number of banknotes coming from delictuous activty is one of the numerous tasks of Police Dept.in EEC countries.It may exist cooperation at Brussels level.
What will be the position of EurobillTracker if asked one day to cooperate for a child kidnaping for example ?
Esmiland

Economist · Post by **Economist** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:50 am

What do you imagine such a cooperation to look like?

If the police or any other institution is paying a ransom to a kidnapper for example, it hardly matters where the money comes from (i.e. if it had been entered on EBT before). And of course everybody is welcome to enter any number of notes into the system. The police could do so and hope to find out where the money surfaces again. But what they could gain by contacting EBT and ask for special cooperation I do not understand. So maybe you could specify that.

Phaseolus · Post by **Phaseolus** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:57 pm

Personnaly, i had already thought of this idea ; but the website also says, that it has no commercial or political links...

Therefor, links with the police could be considered a bit "diffciult" to accept for some users...

Asiamaniac · Post by **Asiamaniac** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:46 pm

Not for me if it helps fight or prevent crime.

In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested. He had robbed a moneychanger who enters bills at EBT. All the bills he had already entered got a little mark.

When he was robbed by that gangster, he had to hand him over all his notes, among these the marked Euro-bills. When the robber had left, he had informed the police, the banks and the moneychanger in his surroundings, informing these parties about the marked bills. It did not take long and that gangster tried to exchange his Euros. Due to the scribblings on the notes the handcuffs were soon clicking...

Without EBT, the offender might have gotten away unpunished.

Yes, this is a little bit off the topic but it seems to be an example to me that with our database, there might be chances for police to track down criminals, and if used for that purpose, I would never mind if our information would be handed over to relevant authorities. They might find out about a special area such notes for a ransom might come from. This is not to discriminate single users but it might help police to focus on a special region.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:06 am

Asiamaniac wrote:In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested.

Actually that story was a lie.

Economist · Post by **Economist** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:41 am

Dakkus wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested.
Actually that story was a lie.

And even if it was true, the mere existance of EBT (if it really was the reason the guy marked his notes) would have caused the arrest, not some help the police got by searching the database.

FANTAS · Post by **FANTAS** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:03 am

What can be done is try to find the notes to track the suspects. The kidnapping or other kind of extorsion example:

the criminals escape:
1- by plane: they are tracked at airport
2- by train: they can't buy tickets with credit card or marked money
3- by car: they can't buy gas (again card and money traceable)

if they escape using other money:
1-they stay in europe: they can't exchange the money in banks because we have trackers there, if they start spending it soon the region where they are will be known.
2-they go to a far country, with so many cooperating exchange offices they can't exchange their money to local and again it's useless.

solution to all this:
underground money exchange for unmarked bills.

Asiamaniac · Post by **Asiamaniac** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:48 pm

Dakkus wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested.
Actually that story was a lie.

Ah, and which i.d..t had put it into existance?

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:57 pm

Asiamaniac wrote:
Dakkus wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested.
Actually that story was a lie.
Ah, and which i.d..t had put it into existance?

I'd rather not talk about problems of other people on a public forum.
However, I do find it interesting, how naive people are on the forum. The good old saying "I saw it on the Internet so it MUST be true" suits to this legend so well it's almost scary.

jack_isidore · Post by **jack_isidore** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:29 pm

another possible contibution of EBT to catch a bankrobber could be as followed: imagine, the bankrobber would be an EBT-addicted and put all his notes into the database. the bank has registered the notes, i.e. new bills.

the question is, if EBT has the duty to pass on the identity. but i suppose yes. naturally, this would be a quite silly idea, but maybe...

great publicity for EBT, thousands of new users!!!

compinho · Post by **compinho** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:14 am

EBT-addicted bankrobber

I wonder if some of the users here might actually rob a bank if they ran out of money of their own.

eddydevries · Post by **eddydevries** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:29 pm

compinho wrote: EBT-addicted bankrobber

I wonder if some of the users here might actually rob a bank if they ran out of money of their own.

That's the only way to get more money.

"just kidding"

lmviterbo · Post by **lmviterbo** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:20 am

Dakkus wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:In Canada, thanks to EBT, a robber could indeed be arrested.
Actually that story was a lie.

Well, I do have a true story related to EBT, me and a policeman getting sacked off the force because of tracked notes, but I'll tell it in a few days...

FANTAS · Post by **FANTAS** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:13 pm

Is it one of your scripts lmviterbo?
I hope to read it first, in the portuguese section.