Timeline for Funds deposited in my bank account. Account closed for suspicious activity. Is this a scam?
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 15:23 | comment | added | Luka | Just to clear things up. Stolen funds == stolen credit / debit card information. Usually this is sold by hackers, so they don't have to deal with the consequences. Once bought, the criminal transfers amounts to a variety of accounts. | |
| Sep 8, 2018 at 9:24 | comment | added | Vix | This is what it sounds like to me. He's asking you to circulate and clean the money trail for him. The small amount he sent is likely to whet your greed, then he'll start sending you more - each time you can take a 'cut', but you become liable. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 17:24 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @BobBaerker If the stolen funds are at a bank, how do you launder them without using a bank? For example, often what you buy are other people's online banking credentials. See here for an example. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @BobBaerker stolen funds need to be laundered in some way to avoid being swept up in bad activity checks by the banks like happened to the OP. You can't put millions in cash into your account without raising a huge number of red flags, so organized crime goes through massive contortions to hide the illicit origins of their money by trying to make it look like normal income. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 15:55 | comment | added | Bob Baerker | @Dan Neely - I think you missed the point of my question and you got sidetracked by my quip about my printing counterfeit money (an objective to get "stuff"). How do you use money in other ways than as cash? Cash deposited to account. Cash withdrawn from account. Cash sent to Nigeria. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 15:46 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @BobBaerker you're thinking too small. You could launder a normal persons salary that way, you couldn't launder 100x as much. And the objective isn't to get stuff per se, it's to make the money looks not stolen so it can be used in ways other than as cash. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 14:21 | comment | added | Bob Baerker | What does it mean to purchase stolen funds on the dark web? He's buying dirty cash at a discount and using it to launder it in this manner? If so, it would seem to me that there should be more efficient ways to launder money, particularly without using a bank and possibly involving the authorities. But what do I know? I use the money I print at local stores ;->) | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 14:05 | history | edited | Luka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 13:52 | history | answered | Luka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |