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I suppose if you're going to launder money, a laundromat would be the logical place to do that.
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I have been thinking about making a craigslist account just for "I buy stuff from amazon for Bitcoin for you" and offer fiat-Bitcoin and Bitcoin-fiat to people. Just to help adoption. No own profit incentive.
The main problem why I don't already do this is because I don't have the time or the liquidity. But if doing this is so close to something illegal (besides tax evasion) I really have to overthink this.
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I was mulling doing the same with Costco. It'd be pretty easy to let friends and family run a tab, and make an app that tracks the tab. I was even going to do weekly free deliveries. Because I get 3% cash back from an "executive card", I could even undercut the retail price.
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I had the same idea, basically a sam's club but with Bitcoin.
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People will get what they want, and I convert my fiat to bitcoin in a roundabout way
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I wonder what is the % of criminals that used it versus other people 🤔
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Taylor allegedly operated 46 bitcoin kiosks in New York, New Jersey and Miami, mostly located in laundromats,
“Bro we gotta maintain everyone’s privacy. It’s worth the money,” prosecutors say the business wrote on Snapchat in response to a complaint about the high costs.
Taylor was indicted on charges of operating an unlicensed money transmission business, criminal tax fraud and offering a false instrument for filing.
It also didn’t require customers to show ID or answer any of the “know your customer” questions that banks are required to ask under law.
“We never ask for ID or have a camera that takes a pic of your face,” one customer was allegedly told, according to prosecutors.
The only identifying information on Taylor’s kiosks was a Snapchat icon, which linked to an anonymous Snapchat account that was connected only to a pre-paid burner phone and an encrypted Proton email account, prosecutors said. The Snapchat channel told customers not to tell anyone about the location of the ATMs. “We need to stay hidden,” the company said.
Forensic analysis of Taylor’s kiosks showed that more than $5.6 million in cash was deposited between September 2017 and November 2018, generating more than $590,000 in fees.
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The link for this post is for an archive, which can be easier to read than the article from the Marketwatch website. The link for the source article is here:
New York man charged with running illegal bitcoin ATMs in laundromats to help criminals launder money https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-york-man-charged-with-running-illegal-bitcoin-atms-in-laundromats-to-help-criminals-launder-money-11649866635
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There is another post for this article, here on SN, using the link to the article on Marketwatch:
New York man charged with running illegal bitcoin ATMs in laundromats to help criminals launder money, using an anonymous Snapchat account #20307 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-york-man-charged-with-running-illegal-bitcoin-atms-in-laundromats-to-help-criminals-launder-money-11649866635
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