The cope that got away with 300 Million Yen !

In the “10 Brilliant Real Heists As Dramatic As The Movies “ article, the writer, Alan Boyle from Listverse, list a number of the most successful robberies all over the world. All of them have what the writer calls “The entertaining touch of heist magic.” And definitely has an interesting plan that represents how you can have a simple approach for the most complicated goals. One of the heists that really caught my attention was the “The 300-Million-Yen Grab”.

It was In December 10, 1968 when the largest robbery in Japan’s history has taken place. It was a normal transporting day for the four bank employees hiding with $2,689,721 to Fuchu, Tokyo. When suddenly a young cope stopped them, saying that their boss ‘s place had been boomed, and the person behind that bombing had called and told the police that the next bombing will be in the transport car. Even though he made up a silly story, to me, I would predict that the way that he said it was the reason behind them believing it. This show that you can fake things in real world that you don not have, like confidence when your presenting in front of a group of people. No one will know that you are nervous as long as you knew how to really hide it.

After that, the four staff members lift the vehicle immediately for the cope to preform a spot inspection. Few seconds later, smoke and flames started erupting from under the vehicle. The staff members knew that there was a bomb and ran to the nearest prison to seek cover. When the looked back for the cope, they saw their car being driven and the cope’s motorcycle lift behind. Sadly the “phony” cope ran away with the money that now worth around $5 million. Later they found out that the smoke and flames where coming from a flare. What is even more smart and shows that this person really prepared for his heist was, after he lift the authorities held a huge investigation, fielding 170.000 officers, and 110.000 suspects. Yet they did no came up with anything. The robber left behind 120 useless, and prearranged clues that will confuse the investigators.

The story has greater details and it gets more interesting, but I wanted to focus on the main tricks this criminal have taken to achieve his mission. No advanced technology, and no secret information. Just thinking like the people he was targeting made him avoid being caught and robbing what is worth $5 million.