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"Stuart had about 20 clients, all of them outside the U.S. in Costa Rica, Panama, Australia, Jamaica, the UK, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere." Sending Ca
by powertower 14y ago
"Stuart had about 20 clients, all of them outside the U.S. in Costa Rica, Panama, Australia, Jamaica, the UK, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere."
Sending Cashier's Checks by mail is pretty much what you'd want to do in the above cases. Visa and MasterCard 6K-40K transactions aren't really going to work out for you too well coming into your PayPal account, especially from the above Countries.
You've removed all fees, all bullshit, and most of the fraud by accepting legitimate bank checks.
> That's textbook money laundering.
Money laundering is the process of concealing the source of money obtained by illicit means.
I don't think he concealed anything, nor was the money obtained illicitly. He licensed a software product.
- rprasad 14y agoI think the original post was saying that he (the sportsbook) was the launder for illicit money obtained by his customers. In other words: they were using him (knowingly or unknowingly) to "clean" their money.
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- beedogs 14y agoHe wasn't a sportsbook, though. He's a software engineer.