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It makes no sense. Reservations have to be paid by cards, the money is already laundered if it's sitting behind a card in a bank account.
by user5994461 9y ago
It makes no sense. Reservations have to be paid by cards, the money is already laundered if it's sitting behind a card in a bank account.
- runeb 9y agoRead the article. They are stolen credit cards.
- glastra 9y agoFrom the Guidelines: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." In my opinion, OP is actually right. It's not money laundering, but simply carding/stealing.
- runeb 9y agoFair point
- MichaelGG 9y agoThat doesn't even make sense to call money laundering, even under the ridiculous expansive views of the non-crime that people refer to as money laundering these days.
- laurencei 9y agoMoney laundering is not always about stolen cards though. It is sometimes about turning dirty money into clean money and getting it legally into your hands. So you can buy pre-paid VISA debit cards with cash though. Or you could open a fake bank account, put the "illegal" cash there under a false name. Then "cycle" cash through AirBnB. Clean cash on the other side in your name.
- lightbyte 9y ago>It is sometimes about turning dirty money into clean money and getting it legally into your hands. It is not sometimes that, that is literally the definition of money laundering. Stolen cards have nothing to do with it.