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Change to BTC, use mixers to mix coins. Take a flight to Asia for few months/half a year. Open a bank account in some less regulated jurisdiction (some tax have
by richardknop 9y ago
Change to BTC, use mixers to mix coins. Take a flight to Asia for few months/half a year. Open a bank account in some less regulated jurisdiction (some tax haven) - better yet open several bank accounts like these. Travel around and keep using localbitcoins to change BTC for cash.
Keep sending cash to bank accounts you have opened by depositing cash in person. Use round robin to distribute money across multiple of your hidden bank accounts so suspiciously large volumes of incoming money doesn't get noticed.
Keep moving around, mixing coins and using localbitcoins to get cash and deposit. Also diversify outside of cash to not raise suspicion of the banks by depositing every day / regularly.
Buy physical gold from pawn shops. Then you can turn gold into cash in banks and deposit it to your account like that. You can also use cash to buy prepaid travel debit cards with like 5k on them at a time from post offices or so. Use that for daily expenses.
That might work. If you are not a US citizen but let's say citizen of China that makes it easier to pull off.
Of course, getting that money back to US to your home bank account would be near impossible (without some way to launder the money).
But you could live off your hidden bank account in tax haven. Just don't flash your millions too publicly so people don't get suspicious. Be humble and pretend to live regular life.
Also you could try to launder the money via setting up some fake ICO project and investing your mixed coins into your own ICO, then cash out your custom tokens on exchanges. Just make sure to do this from some unregulated tax haven and it should work (most of these ICOs create their businesses in dodgy tax havens for this reason).
This is how I'd imagine these scammers are doing it.