My thought was they’d be trained to go through that routine already with their actual clients. So when someone who was not a client called in, they’d just do the same thing they’d already been trained to do.

And they’d have no guarantee of collecting from the invoice, but most people would be extremely grateful and a lot I bet would pay much more than the suggested amount.

To me the biggest negative would be it undermines their core business which is why get the real deal when you can fake it almost for free?

But in a way instead of selling insurance (which is what they’re doing) they’d be offering direct and immense value at the time you needed it most.

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If they already had everyone trained up and ready to go then it could work. It would be interesting to look at some statistics around this, e.g. how many companies have protocols in place, how often it happens, what usually happens, etc.

I’m sure it’s very rare (now) but wait until the price is at 1M. And almost certainly they have duress protocols.

But the biggest win from it would be as a deterrent. It would make it seem like virtually everyone had a third-party multi-sig setup at the ready, and there’s no point in even trying.

I suppose though it could have the opposite incentive wherein attackers got wind of it and just figured everyone was lying even if you really did have it!

So some poor bastard has the setup and gets tortured because the attacker assumes he’s faking it!

But the gist is to make it so no one really knows if they can ever get anything out of a violent attack.