[dingnuts]

cash is tracked as well, it's been over for a long time. each bill has a serial # and it gets scanned going in and out of the bank. Yes, it's still marginally easier to launder cash but if you just take it out of the ATM and spend it at a store it'll get tracked accurately

[genghisjahn]

I don't think this is as accurate as you are making out. Wawa (a connivence store in the Philly area) isn't tracking each $10 that goes in and out of the register. It could float all over the city before hitting a bank, and even then banks typically track serial numbers for large demonizations and we when there's a suspicion of illegal activity. Happy to learn more about this if I have it wrong.

[zahlman]

> demonizations

denominations, perhaps?

[genghisjahn]

Yes.

[codyb]

How would one find out what data brokers knew from their cash purchases?

Do banks sell this information? This bill was pulled from this ATM in Georgia by one Claudius McMoneyhands, and then deposited by one CashMoneyBusiness LLC in South Carolina three weeks later

Seems like there could still be intermediaries and a lack of what you actually bought with it at least?

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

Oh boy, don't give them any more ideas. This would work.

[rustcleaner]

I suggested that this might be happening and had someone pretty quickly dismissing that the Chinese ATM maker here (oddly specifically, and happens to be my bank ATM here in Wyoming which I never stated), would put in the extra hardware for that. The hardware is mostly there already for imaging (how does the machine verify it's valid cash?) and it analyzes digits with a small neuronet for cheques (decades old tech). It's all there, just write some back-end stuff, and process bill images at a colocation if the ATMs don't have the horsepower to get the serial number locally.

[asdff]

Grocery store lets you draw $200 cashback out of their register.