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How to rob a bank


Version 1.1, September 2003

­ on the Internet, that is.

And actually, not the bank, but bank clients.

It's not wise to rob banks. It's much wiser to rob bank clients.

If the bank is the party that loses the money, they will not take it lightly. They have their mechanisms in place to deal with the issue.

If the bank clients are the ones who lose money, and the bank can get away with putting the blame on the client, and can refuse any responsibility, then not much of a mechanism will kick in. The client's fault and problem.

But first, I have to confuse the issue. I have to do so for liability purposes. I don't want bank initiating court proceedings against me for allegedly providing criminal advice to bank robbers.

So, here we go on the confusion trail.

I'm a writer, not a gangster. I started out as a newspaper reporter and rose to be a foreign correspondent for German newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. I wrote a novel, but I probably am a lousy fiction writer. I wrote and published a good number of books, mostly travel guides.

For almost 10 years, I have been writing and publishing exclusively on the Internet. I live from people actually paying subscription fees to read my output.

Mostly I write on sex, because, as everybody knows, sex sells. Apart from that, it's also the most important topic in life, after life itself.

I also write on crime. For a writer, if he doesn't want to cover sex, crime is another option. Sex and crime is what people want to read about.

My writing on sex is advice. Is my writing on crime also advice? Advice on how to rob people's bank accounts?

I am not writing fiction. When I write about how to rob a bank, than I mean it. It's about how to rob a bank.

But I'm also a writer. I'd love it if readers were to read my stuff just because of the way I handle words.

Style, of course, is only half of what makes good literature. The other half is contents. So, as I can't excel in style, I at least can try to capture my audience with contents.

Genuine information on the finer points of robbing a bank. Or bank clients.

Is it criminal advice? Or just literature?

Can you learn from an Agatha Christie novel how to best murder your grandfather? If it's not realistic, it's a lousy novel.

What I provide is realistic, genuine information on how to rob Internet bank accounts.

You can read it as literature, or as whatever you want.

I earn my living writing on and for the Internet. For complete access to my work, or parts of it, people pay subscription fees. They pay them by making use of Internet payment processors. And I have been using Internet banking since it has been available, though I have now greatly reduced my financial exposure on the Internet. I have been robbed once, via the e-gold.com route, and I don't want to be robbed twice.

But I've become an expert on how to do it.

Copyright © 2005 Serge Kreutz. All rights reserved.