[mewpmewp2]

But people don't have to pay cash, the "pretend people" pay cash.

[dilyevsky]

If you do too many cash transactions compared to legit carwashes in the area i can imagine it will attract attention

[mewpmewp2]

So buy all the other carwashes in the area, offer them some money in a nice way, or if this doesn't work, guess you just have to do it the hard way.

[dilyevsky]

Probably way easier and more scalable to setup something offshore than doing a scheme that can literally be thwarted by a guy with a clipboard standing outside

[mewpmewp2]

You would need to get all of the cash offshore then first, right.

[pxeboot]

I won't claim this isn't happening somewhere, but the newer automated car washes near me are card only. They don't accept cash at all.

[pillusmany]

If you pay with card there will be an electronic trace.

[darby_eight]

A lot of money laundering involves traceable transactions, no? The point isn't to hide the transaction but rather have a plausible explanation for it that's difficult or impossible to verify. I'd think a larger issue would be that you can't plausibly charge very much per swipe. I'm betting there's much easier ways to launder cash these days with so many digital goods and services with basically arbitrary profit margins than brick-and-mortar storefronts can provide.

Granted, there are benefits to laundering money with literal cash, but you still want some legitimate money trail even if you don't actually hand over the claimed goods or services—enough at least to cover the actual expenses of the business, i'd presume.