by LittleNikki » Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:16 am
Location: Chenggong Gemstone Exchange, Commerce District, Shanghai
The elderly Chinese man looked up from the velvet lined box with the four sizable rubies in it. The look he gave the white woman in front of him was one of clear distrust and suspiciion, The attractive brunette returned a look of pure innocence.
The Chinese man clearly wasn't buying it. But the rubies the woman had presented him were as advertised,
The elderly Chinese man put the rubies under the counter, then pulled out a briefcase and set it on the counter. He opened the briefcase to let the woman see its contents.
"All there, Ms. LeBlanc," the Chinese man told Alexandria. "Half a million euros, plane tickets to New York by way of Bombay, Istandbul and Paris, and all the paperwork you need to make your escaoe. You may inspect it, if you wish."
"No need," Alexandria said as she closed the briefcase. Alexandria gave the elderly man a beatific smile as she tucked the briefcase under her arm. "I'm sure everything is in order. Well, I'd best be on my way. Pleasure doing business with you."
The elderly man scowled as he watched the western woman leave his shop. Everything had unfolded as he and the western woman had planned, and he had gained possession of four valuable gems in compensation for facilitating the western woman's escape from China. And yet the man felt that somehow his European partner had bested him in the exchange.
A few blocks away, Alexandria ducked into a vacant alleyway, where she placed a small device inside the briefcase. She then abandoned the briefcase in the alleyway, and quickly walked away. The small device Alexandria had left in the briefcase was quickly reducing all the contents of the briefcase to ashes, which is what Alexandria wanted. She had no more need of the contents of the briefcase. They had served their purpose.
The elderly man in the store Alexandria had just left though Alexandria had committed a jewel heist worth about twenty million Euros. In exchange for facilitating Alexandria's escape from the country, the elderly man got a twenty-five percent cut of the take, in the form of the four rubies Alexandria had just handed over to him.
In reality, those four rubies were the only gems taken in the heist. The paperwork would make it look as if the elderly Chinese man had hired a thief to steal the rubies, paying the thief ten percent of the rubies' worth in exchange for her services.
Alexandria had needed to get into an air gapped oomputer system for her scheme. She knew her breach would be detected within a day's time, and whoever detected the breach would want to know what the interloper was after. So Alexandria gave the system owner's security something to look for: four stolen rubies.
In reality, Alexandria had been looking for entry into a semi-official international currency exchange system. Alexandria had drained approximately half a billion euros from millions of accounts, converting the stolen proceeds into bitcoin form. Now Alexandria had half a billion euros worth of bitcoins in a memory stick hanging in the form of a pendant around her neck on a simple silver necklace,
Sometime tomorrow evening, the authorities would be raiding the offices of Chenggong Gemstone Exchange, where they would recover the rubies. They would also find evidence that the hired thief, one Ms. LeBlanc, was fleeing westward. The authorities would give pursuit, but would never find the mysterious Ms. LeBlanc. It would be the only disappointment in an otherwise successful law enforcement operation.
Meanwhile, one Lieutenant Commander Alexandria Fitzghugh of His Majesty's Royal Navty would board the suborbital ship Spindrift for a quick and uneventful trip to Vancouver. She would then deboard the ship, and the attractive naval officer would disappear from existence just as quickly as she had come into existence. Meanwhile, Alexandria would begin living the life that five hundred million untraceable Euros could afford her.
A small smile played across Alexandria's lips as she headed toward the small apartment she had rented. There she would get ready for the final stage of the greatest and most successful scam she had ever pulled.
[u]Location[/u]: Chenggong Gemstone Exchange, Commerce District, Shanghai
The elderly Chinese man looked up from the velvet lined box with the four sizable rubies in it. The look he gave the white woman in front of him was one of clear distrust and suspiciion, The attractive brunette returned a look of pure innocence.
The Chinese man clearly wasn't buying it. But the rubies the woman had presented him were as advertised,
The elderly Chinese man put the rubies under the counter, then pulled out a briefcase and set it on the counter. He opened the briefcase to let the woman see its contents.
"All there, Ms. LeBlanc," the Chinese man told Alexandria. "Half a million euros, plane tickets to New York by way of Bombay, Istandbul and Paris, and all the paperwork you need to make your escaoe. You may inspect it, if you wish."
"No need," Alexandria said as she closed the briefcase. Alexandria gave the elderly man a beatific smile as she tucked the briefcase under her arm. "I'm sure everything is in order. Well, I'd best be on my way. Pleasure doing business with you."
The elderly man scowled as he watched the western woman leave his shop. Everything had unfolded as he and the western woman had planned, and he had gained possession of four valuable gems in compensation for facilitating the western woman's escape from China. And yet the man felt that somehow his European partner had bested him in the exchange.
A few blocks away, Alexandria ducked into a vacant alleyway, where she placed a small device inside the briefcase. She then abandoned the briefcase in the alleyway, and quickly walked away. The small device Alexandria had left in the briefcase was quickly reducing all the contents of the briefcase to ashes, which is what Alexandria wanted. She had no more need of the contents of the briefcase. They had served their purpose.
The elderly man in the store Alexandria had just left though Alexandria had committed a jewel heist worth about twenty million Euros. In exchange for facilitating Alexandria's escape from the country, the elderly man got a twenty-five percent cut of the take, in the form of the four rubies Alexandria had just handed over to him.
In reality, those four rubies were the only gems taken in the heist. The paperwork would make it look as if the elderly Chinese man had hired a thief to steal the rubies, paying the thief ten percent of the rubies' worth in exchange for her services.
Alexandria had needed to get into an air gapped oomputer system for her scheme. She knew her breach would be detected within a day's time, and whoever detected the breach would want to know what the interloper was after. So Alexandria gave the system owner's security something to look for: four stolen rubies.
In reality, Alexandria had been looking for entry into a semi-official international currency exchange system. Alexandria had drained approximately half a billion euros from millions of accounts, converting the stolen proceeds into bitcoin form. Now Alexandria had half a billion euros worth of bitcoins in a memory stick hanging in the form of a pendant around her neck on a simple silver necklace,
Sometime tomorrow evening, the authorities would be raiding the offices of Chenggong Gemstone Exchange, where they would recover the rubies. They would also find evidence that the hired thief, one Ms. LeBlanc, was fleeing westward. The authorities would give pursuit, but would never find the mysterious Ms. LeBlanc. It would be the only disappointment in an otherwise successful law enforcement operation.
Meanwhile, one Lieutenant Commander Alexandria Fitzghugh of His Majesty's Royal Navty would board the suborbital ship [i][b]Spindrift[/b][/i] for a quick and uneventful trip to Vancouver. She would then deboard the ship, and the attractive naval officer would disappear from existence just as quickly as she had come into existence. Meanwhile, Alexandria would begin living the life that five hundred million untraceable Euros could afford her.
A small smile played across Alexandria's lips as she headed toward the small apartment she had rented. There she would get ready for the final stage of the greatest and most successful scam she had ever pulled.