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The rise of online ads as a money laundering and terrorist-funding tactic
- gotem 6y agoSeems false. I’ve spent $150+ on online ads and have never done anything related to money laundering.
- commandlinefan 6y agoI thought about that back in the 90's - a drug dealer who wanted to accept credit cards for payment could easily set up a porn site with very little content, accept credit cards for subscriptions, and just keep track of which of their actual customers was associated with which subscription account.
- seibelj 6y agoThis strategy predates and doesn’t require the internet. I was acquainted with a drug dealer had a cleaning van. All her clients were given cleaning invoices. She lived in a very respectable condo. I’ve heard the IRS can send investigators to figure this out but I doubt they have many resources.
- rhodozelia 6y agodominos pizza delivery guy around here delivers more than just pizza
- londons_explore 6y agoDoes the IRS care? As long as tax is paid on those invoices...
- bigwavedave 6y agoAnother interesting idea would be to make a mobile game (even a very basic re-skinned asset flip would work), allow for loot boxes, loot crates, or even just an ingame store to straight up "pay $x to get item y re-skinned with z color scheme". Give your customer a digital receipt and have them produce the confirmation number when meeting up to take possession of the illegal goods. This doesn't solve the problem of giving two otherwise disconnected parties a legitimate and believable reason to meet up, but it would make a fairly flexible payment system for dealers. The type of loot box/item bought could correlate to the desired product and the number purchased could correlate to the desired dosages. There are probably all kinds of other issues with this; I haven't fleshed the idea out much, it's just something that struck me when reading your comment :).