[tipalink]

Seriously, how did they get around KYC (“Know Your Customer”) and AML ("Anti-Money Laundering") regulations? GoFundMe, as a MSB ("Money Service Business") is required by law to verify their customers' identitues (https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...). If Yelp did not provide this information, they both are violating MSB regulations.

[gumby]

Don’t know if gofundme is subject to those but yelp certainly wouldn’t be.

[tipalink]

Any business that takes even 1 cent from someone and gives it to someone else is, by the definition provided on the url I shared above, a MSB. GoFundMe certainly is. Yelp is not, but they are culpable by this business business arrangement.

[jmalicki]

From your link on MSB "for an amount greater than $1,000 per person, per day, in one or more transactions." - so, no.

[tipalink]

From my link "a person who engages as a business in the transfer of funds is an MSB as a money transmitter, regardless of the amount of money transmission activity." (emphasis mine)

So, YES. Did you just stop reading after your bias was confirmed?