$5M only paid if you are successful is an awful deal that no competent firm accepts as a fee structure. How about all of the initial hours you’d have to initially spend upfront? Basically the victim takes zero risk upfront while the people attempting to help have to risk their time/energy. That does not align. These vague “bounties” are bad for the industry and only make it look like the team is doing something while not actually incentivizing anyone competent. A fair compensation structure rewards both time spent by billing for hourly + incentivizes successful outcome with contingency % (how all top firms structure fees). There’s also a number of factors which show how these bounties are not fair: How about if the attacker lives in a bad jurisdiction making arrest difficult? What if law enforcement doesn’t recover all of the funds during arrest? etc