Right now, they are catching medium level drug dealers, prostitution rings, massage parlors, etc using SAR reports filed by banks. Basically, when someone depos

Right now, they are catching medium level drug dealers, prostitution rings, massage parlors, etc using SAR reports filed by banks. Basically, when someone deposits $4000 cash every month for a couple of years; expect him to get busted. Once the guy gets busted, he must be thinking about how he got caught. It is banks' active spying: under regulation, banks have become active spies. It is a new way of spying: force private entities to comply for suspicious activity, with a huge discretion given to regulatory bodies on the scope of what the word 'suspicious' entails.