The Sting (2018) — The Tale of The Dark Web
Okay. We want to do a remake of The Sting, but set it in a modern age.
So the plot could go like this … we are the police — let’s set it in The Netherlands and get great views of canals and boats. Now we aim to target illegal betting, so we set up a sting.
We find the King-Pin, who runs the major illegal betting shop in the major city (let’s say it’s Amsterdam), and then rather than arrest him, we aim to shut down his operation. Before this, we will take-over his main competitor in the city, and then they will tell us everything about their operation and give us their keys to the operation.
We then run their illegal better system (but change all the telephone numbers and all the back-end functions). Next we pounce on King Pin who tells us everything and we shut down his operation. After this, we watch all the bookies and their customers move into our operation, and each time they make a bet, we arrest them.
And just to make sure we catch all of them, we ask them to send us a picture of themselves outside their home.
Far fetched?
Well, replace betting for drug dealing, and a city for the Dark Web, and you have the Dutch Police Sting … read on …
