Re: Why is the second part of:
Of course, I cannot exclude this happening but it is different than survivor bias.
How did they got caught? In each and every case it boiled down to: the sums didn't add up (often quite literally). This is irrespective of running or not. But most of them were still employed at the time of finding out - including the cases with a posh villa in sunny Southern Europe or a whole hotel (!) in North America.
Doing the big score at once increases the chance of getting busted quicker. Simply because the sums not adding up happens quicker.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
