72: Bangladesh Bank Heist

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A bank robbery with the objective to steal 1 billion dollars. This is the story of the largest bank robbery in history. And it was all done over a computer. Our guest this episode was Geoff White. Learn more about him at geoffwhite.tech. Check out Geoff’s new book Crime Dot Com. Affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789142857/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1789142857&linkCode=as2&tag=darknet04-20&linkId=bb5a6aa7ba980183e0ce7cee1939ea05 Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25. Support for this episode comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've heard a few stories of people robbing banks just to get a few hundred dollars.
0:12.2	I heard this one story of a guy who walked into a bank he acted like he had a gun under
0:16.2	his jacket.
0:17.2	He placed a note on the bank's teller counter and the note quietly said, this is a
0:21.4	robbery.
0:22.4	Give me some money.
0:23.4	The teller straightened up and handed over some cash and the guy ran out.
0:28.9	He risked it all just for a few hundred or a thousand dollars.
0:33.5	And then there are people who rob banks with bigger goals like they want to score a hundred
0:37.4	thousand dollars.
0:38.6	To do this you might have to hold up the whole bank, not just one teller, which causes total
0:43.4	panic.
0:44.4	You need to jump behind the counter and empty all the tills and maybe bring a real gun
0:48.6	this time.
0:49.6	It's intense and crazy.
0:51.8	But for some people that still isn't enough, they have even bigger bank robbery ambitions.
0:57.2	They want to score a million dollars and that kind of bank robbery is not easy.
1:02.0	You have to time it just right like just after someone makes a big deposit or maybe you plan
1:06.4	to knock over a few of those armored bank trucks all at once.
1:10.2	But some people have done it and it usually takes a lot more resources and skill to pull
1:14.7	off a million dollar bank robbery.
1:18.0	But still that's not good enough for everyone.
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