To Quote John Dillinger . . .
“ . . . I rob banks because that’s where the money is.”
A pretty straight-forward approach back in the thirties, when John was hustling around the mid-west. But this is a new century marked with the indelible print of high-tech and besides, stepping in to a bank lobby with a gun in your hand is messy. Things go awry and people could get hurt, including yourself.
The modern and up-to-date 21st century gunslinger pays off someone at FedEx or UPS or bribes a baggage-handler to get the map of where the money is. A treasure hunt of sorts, except ‘thirty paces due south of the old oak’ is now ‘the small box from Citigroup in their regular Tuesday shipment.’ Dillinger’s fictional grandson doesn’t need to hope there’s some cash in the till when he tells everyone to hit the floor, he’s got the keys to 1.2 million customers’ account information in that innocuous little cardboard box. He doesn't even have to show up personally, robbing the bank can now be done from Russia or Bangledesh, India …