Does Blackmail actually ever work?

[fatpies]

TL : DR

Thinking back to when I was an employee, I knew the dirty and illegal secrets my boss was running. I had evidence as well. Dirty secrets which would have amounted to a lot of prison time.

Six years later in a quiet Feb evening I'm wondering why I never blackmailed him over it... since he had so much to lose and would have paid handsomely to keep his dirty secrets secret. Obviously I can't now a days even if I wanted to.

My question is does blackmail actually ever work? I'm not on about the ethics of it. But I'm thinking I had him over a barrel and £5000 maybe £10,000 a year for my silence would have been very nice.
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[Hex]

5 to 10k a year!

A lot cheeper to make someone vanish.
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[Dracon]

Did you hear fatpies was killed in a hit and run? Terrible accident...

Depends who's nastier really, and if he's got a lot to lose...

[The Artist]

It depends entirely on the situation.

A nobody blackmailing someone who knows who each other is, then you might get killed.

Someone famous blackmailing someone else would probably get reported and ruin their career.

Only way to do it and it work would be anonymously. But yeh, £5k-£10k could be a lot to one person and nothing to another.

If it was me, I would want someone wealthy to make a one off payment and for me to disappear.

[bazza]

[Dracon]

[plugger147]

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[Rogerborg]

<Warped>Best if I don't go into details</Warped> but I'd suggest that your ask needs to be less than the price of any moderately competent lawyer.
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[GhostRider]

People assume that it's really easy to hire someone to "make someone disappear", like it's a viable option in everyday life. There's paying "Razor" the crackhead to do it, but I doubt he's going to cover his tracks very well or resist the urge to squeal when the cops put some heat on him, least of all because he has some crack to get on smoking.

I think I have some contacts I could tap to make it happen, but it would not be cheap, and the trouble is they may well take my money and not carry out "the hit", as one guy I have in mind has been known to debt collect for people then keep the cash - £30k last time I cared to listen. And given that the guy didn't have the stones to collect in person himself, what's he really going to do against the guy he hired to get his money back? Go to the cops?! So yeah, finding someone of the right calibre to do a job like that I don't think is as easy as people seem to make out - and in any case, are you not then opening yourself up to blackmail opportunitys then? What if the guy gets nabbed for a botched job and decides to make the judge a bit lenient on him by revealing the details of his last job that you hired him for?

Nah, you want something doing, you need to do it yourself, just need some trusty garroting wire, a shovel and a 12" black rubber dildo and you're all set.

Blackmail doesn't really work because sure he might pay you one time, but then whats to stop you coming back and saying the rates have gone up? I think it would only ever work in a scenario where the mark really doesn't have much choice, and I think situations like that are probably few and far between.


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[The Artist]

Price for taking someone out from what I have seen is fairly cheap if it is for monetary gain. £20k for amateur and £50k for a professional.

[GhostRider]

Pretty cheap huh?

How many people have £50k laying around spare to deal with potential blackmailers, and hell thats just the one, what if a few people are in the know?

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[The Artist]

[fatpies]

[duhawkz]

[Rogerborg]

[The Artist]

[Hetzer]

Lol. Talking like there's a menu with fixed prices and shit!

Go with the pro, he offers a guarantee. And he's unionised too, which is nice.
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[chris-red]

Pfft £50k? I know someone who will do it for £10 and a Bacon Sandwich.
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