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POST Help, I want my anonymous untraceable electornic money back

As I mentioned when I was discussing crime a couple of weeks ago, I’m surprised that this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often. Armed robbers broke into a cryptocurrency trader’s house in England and threatened him and his family until he transferred his Bitcoin to a wallet under their control. Now, if robbers broke into my house and threatened my family and made me PingIt my overdraft to them, I’d have some hope that a combination of Barclays Bank and Surrey Police might do something about it.

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