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Originally Posted by Balticfox
What I don't understand is that the fellow implied that he was a computer hacking whiz as well as a master counterfeiter. Well why then didn't he have a fake ID or three set up for when he was on the verge of being exposed? With all the money he made, he could then have easily lived very comfortably in several places after disappearing, e.g. a luxury condo in a big city such as New York where nobody knows his neighbours and out-of-the-way seasonal resorts from Maine to Wisconsin to Alabama and Louisiana accustomed to tourists coming and going? Why did he choose to eat a bullet instead?

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Hubris. He never thought he'd get caught.