[rosndo]

You provide them accounting from your fake business which accepts only monero payments for digital goods and doesn’t keep access logs?

This is really basic stuff. You will never be caught unless other evidence leads them from the original crime to you.

Unless you fuck up it’s not possible to link incoming Moneroj to any specific source, this means that you can fairly easily hide your money laundering activities even from somebody with full visibility into your business.

[323]

You live in some fantasy land if you think you can just say "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off".

Unlike criminal law where you are "innocent until proven guilty", in most AML/KYC situations you are "guilty until proven innocent".

[rosndo]

You’re being ridiculous. Nobody is going to look at you twice for selling 1000x$5000 cryptocurrency trading courses a year, or even double that.

I’ve dealt with AML/KYC for cryptocurrency businesses with much higher volumes, nobody ever asked for anything crazy. Just basic accounting, website urls, linkedin profiles.

> You live in some fantasy land if you think you can just say "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off"

I think the only takeaway here is that “323” is too stupid and greedy to survive as a money launderer. Don’t try to cash out $100M in monero at once, live a wonderful life with $5-10M a year.

[bduerst]

>I’ve dealt with AML/KYC for cryptocurrency businesses with much higher volumes, nobody ever asked for anything crazy.

Were they legit businesses or illegal?

It makes a difference because there's more than just you and the KYC exchanges reporting, and it's survivor bias to assume they appear the same.

[rosndo]

Legal businesses, receiving much larger individual payments from a limited number of clients.

> It makes a difference because there's more than just you and the KYC exchanges reporting, and it's survivor bias to assume they appear the same.

Exchanges are usually the least of your problems, it’s the banks.

Even very high risk businesses don’t face scrutiny which isn’t easily overcome when all of your incoming payments are anonymous and untraceable. It’s really not hard to create a fake ecommerce business that would be entirely indistinguishable from a real one.

[novok]

If you watch the other economic activity and internet activity of that e-commerce business, you could deduce how much activity it might be generating. No real e-commerce biz doesn’t have ad spend or other marketing activities, no e-commerce biz doesn’t have a sell rate that is %100, etc. Much like how the irs audits laundromats via their water and power usage. Are they consuming enough water and electricity to justify their revenue?

[dannyw]

nobody actually cares enough to bust money laundering if it's not causing publicly visible problems.

White collar law enforcement is an illusion, backed by the occasional example.

There are 13k FBI special agents and most have case loads focused on things like "murder" than some e-commerce website with traffic numbers that don't add up.

A one hour cursory look on public clearnet hacking forums will surface hundreds of felonies by people with poor opsec, Feds scroll past them on a daily basis. It's not what they're after.

And no, the IRS has been trimmed to bones for decades, they probably audit <10 laundromats via water and power analysis a year, the same way Apple built literally two iPhone recycling robots (that do a thousand devices a year) but spend millions on marketing.

[rosndo]

First, nobody cares that much unless they know you’re guilty.

Second, just obviously spend a little money and time on those things? It’s a minor cost to run shitty ad campaigns.

The business doesn’t need to be good, it just has to look real. Do things a real business would do, except unlike a real business you will have a 100% chance of success.

[fer]

> "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off"

That's pretty much the whole NFT craze, but without Monero which makes it even dumber.