"They will come looking for you, putting a gun to your head telling you to transfer your assets to them"
You talk about pragmatism but give a crime scenario out of Hollywood movies.
Do you mean bank transfer? Am I transferring a million dollars into an official bank account registered in the criminal's real name?
Do you mean I should sign a deed giving them possesion of my house, and that would hold up in court?
Any large transfer will trigger a multi-day KYC and security process at the bank. Are they going to hold me hostage for weeks?
There is a much easier crime that pays better and does not involve risk of death and leaving your fibgerprints all over: stealing a car, an expensive car.
That's why there are more car thefts than home robberies.
Google Translate says of the first "Count Carl Piper, 73, was robbed in his home at Högestad Castle by robbers." and "Carl Piper is one of Skåne's most profiled nobles."
The second "Bengtsson, 32, was abducted on January 17th in Gothenburg on his way to work at Siba, a family-owned nationwide home electronics retail chain of which he is managing director and which he will one day inherit."
Is your suggestion that if this information weren't public then no one would know that those men were rich and so they wouldn't have been robbed or abducted?
Because 1) poor people get robbed too, and 2) I usually think someone who lives in a castle, is often profiled in the news for one's wealth-related activities; or someone who is the managing director of a large chain store; probably has money - without having to check their tax records.
Were the attackers of Count Carl Piper ever found? You mentioned "foreign criminals" earlier, but why couldn't they be domestic?
Earlier you wrote "Senior citizens are also targeted by criminals in Sweden".
There's no need to know the person's age and address - go to a neighborhood with decent-looking houses and knock on doors pretending to offer services like re-roofing or driveway sealing. If the person who answers is old, and alone, try exactly the same technique you mentioned.
You talk about pragmatism but give a crime scenario out of Hollywood movies.
Do you mean bank transfer? Am I transferring a million dollars into an official bank account registered in the criminal's real name?
Do you mean I should sign a deed giving them possesion of my house, and that would hold up in court?
Any large transfer will trigger a multi-day KYC and security process at the bank. Are they going to hold me hostage for weeks?
There is a much easier crime that pays better and does not involve risk of death and leaving your fibgerprints all over: stealing a car, an expensive car.
That's why there are more car thefts than home robberies.