Eve does a BitCoin Sting

Let’s have a bit of fun with Eve pulling off a Bitcoin Sting.

And so, after reading about the $81 million scam at the Bangladesh Central Bank , Eve settles down after her magic tricks, and flicks through the TV channels. She eventually ends up on the movie channel, and which is showing The Sting:

Before her eyes she sees Paul Newman and Robert Redford setting a fake bookmaker and then in creating delays in the transmission of the results from a horse race in order to pull off a scam (“The Sting”).

Eve’s mind, which is continually thinking about new ways of tricking people, goes into overtime. Could she do this with a Bitcoin scam?

Her target is going to be a local coffee shop, as she knows that they accept bitcoins straight away and hand her the coffee. If she was lucky she could walk out of the shop with some free coffee.

Eve sets up The Coffee Sting

In the film the scammers setup a fake bookmaker. So how could she do this?

So Eve’s first scam on the coffee shop is sneak round the back and switch the network connection of a coffee shop to her own one. For this…