[vinceguidry]

Doubt it. Sounds to me like he was fishing for information so he could find out who they were. If they'd said, "Sure, we want $X million!" then they'd have to hash out a delivery method, all of a sudden they're on USGov's turf.

[scintill76]

True. They could have tried bitcoin. Receiving is the easy part -- spending it and remaining free might have been a problem, though...