My wife has traveled the world, and one thing she has learned is some countries, is to keep a low profile. It doesn't take long now days to find out info about a certain person, especially if they have some sort of social media.
Lets take steemit for example, I can go on and see what anyone on the site has in value in steem power. So a account like freedom that has millions of steem is technically worth millions of dollars, untraceable dollars to an extent. So what if someone made the connection of who this person is. Having your worth exposed could make you a target.
People do weird things for money.