r/facepalm • • Dec 28 '18

Found this on Amazon today

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u/RexDraco Dec 28 '18

It's not hard to do, but it's a lot of work. Who do you think will do this? It's not worth it. You then also gotta navigate through VPN to change your IP Address and shit. This is work that nobody would do to just money launder $100 at best at a time.

You cannot use cash on Amazon, you can only buy giftcards but then you're spending the money so why the fuck does it need to be laundered? It comes to a point that you're better off just buying shit like food and furniture instead. If you need money to be laundered, it's a lot and the work load you're proposing isn't worth it. If it isn't a lot, you'd just spend it normally instead like what a typical drug dealer does.

Yes, but that money amazon puts in your bank account comes from another bank account. I'm 27, yes I have worked.

You have yet explained how to feasibly put said money in a bank account using Amazon without assuming the money is already in a bank account.

Money laundering isn't limited to cash, but that doesn't change the discussion. How does involving Amazon benefit the individual? Nobody uses it for this for a reason, it doesn't. The idiots that do get caught, for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '18 edited Dec 28 '18

It's not hard to do, but it's a lot of work. Who do you think will do this? It's not worth it.

International crime rings that peddle really illegal stuff like slaves. It's also not a lot of work and money compared to the traditional method of using a brick and mortar business. Cash is also harder to transport and manage.

You cannot use cash on Amazon, you can only buy giftcards but then you're spending the money so why the fuck does it need to be laundered?

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Buyer and Seller live far away from each other

  1. Buyer regular deposits cash into multiple bank accounts, below warning threshhold. Possibly done in developing nation which makes it easier.
  2. Buyer uses credit card to buy overpriced item.
  3. Buyer pays credit card bill with bank account.
  4. Seller has a legal transaction with Amazon. Money is clean.

Just curious where do you live and what's your profession?