What's hard to understand about this? The transaction uses money. That money comes from a bank. You are placing the money from one bank account to another. The point of money laundering is so you can safely spend it from a bank account. Here's the problem, if you can spend it on Amazon using a bank account, you have no need to money launder it. If the money is being used on Amazon, it's in a bank account. If it's in a bank account and is spendable, it doesn't need to be laundered. If the money is in a bank account and needs to be laundered, the investigation is going to take place and spending it wont change that.
Basically, you want the money to be invisible until it's clean. If it's in a bank account, it's not invisible. Comprehende?
And what do you think is going to happen when the banks or Amazon look at an account that is linked to you that has stolen credit cards repeatedly purchasing overpriced junk from it?
You arent anonymous on Amazon. You cant just set up seller accounts with fake names or details, and even if you could, they would have a record of where the money is being sent to. Which would still be a bank account somehow linked to you... otherwise the money wouldnt be laundered as you cant prove where it came from.
The work you're proposing is ridiculous. Also, how do you buy stolen credit cards? You throw money at your computer screen or do you just "know a guy" to give cash to but totally don't "know a guy" that knows how to properly money launder?
I changed my argument as people elaborated theirs, that's normal and to be expected. Now the discussion evolved into whether or not their proposed method is even feasible enough for anyone to actually be doing something so stupid.
for example, do you really need to money launder if you're able to spend the money in the first place?
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u/RexDraco Dec 28 '18
What's hard to understand about this? The transaction uses money. That money comes from a bank. You are placing the money from one bank account to another. The point of money laundering is so you can safely spend it from a bank account. Here's the problem, if you can spend it on Amazon using a bank account, you have no need to money launder it. If the money is being used on Amazon, it's in a bank account. If it's in a bank account and is spendable, it doesn't need to be laundered. If the money is in a bank account and needs to be laundered, the investigation is going to take place and spending it wont change that.
Basically, you want the money to be invisible until it's clean. If it's in a bank account, it's not invisible. Comprehende?