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by Angostura 3918 days ago
That doesn't seem like a terribly good way of laundering money. It leaves an extensive trail and I would have thought that transactions like that would set of several klaxons at Amazon HQ
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These guys are not terribly bright in some cases

One could also buy amazon.com giftcards with cash in shops in US (no questions asked) then sell them on localbitcoins.com (go check it out > https://localbitcoins.com/buy-bitcoins-online/usd/amazon-gif...) for bitcoins losing about 20-30% in fees to get bitcoin.

Once you have bitcoin....