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Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

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Re: Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

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Post by sneak »

chairmanwow1 wrote: post #121
ekianjo wrote: post #65

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Because not everyone has access to cards?

Legal residents absolutely 100% all have _access_ to cards, whether they choose to use them is another matter.

Also; this is factually false. There are thousands and thousands of people who are citizens, legal residents with legal ID, and not fugitives, who cannot obtain bank accounts or bank cards.

There is a secret blacklist shared among the banks that cause them to deny or automatically close accounts held by certain people. They are not required to service anyone.

Do you not see the dangerous failure modes of allowing private companies to point and click cause someone to become persona non grata without due process? They also happily do so at the request of the state, again with no requirement of criminal wrongdoing or burden of proof, and no due process.

Re: Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

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Post by nitwit005 »

potato3732842 wrote: post #81
nitwit005 wrote: post #59

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The same attitude is present in the US. You can occasionally find signs in stores in the US indicating they won't accept bills larger than $20: https://www.amazon.com/SmartSign-V-shaped-Businesses-Restaur...

It's always a lie though. You can't realistically start a register out with less than $100 of change for a few hour shift. Maybe $50 for really short shift or if there's a manager with safe access who can reload it.

The signs aren't about the amount of change in the register. It's that they'll refuse to take large bills.

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Post by netcan »

SilasX wrote: post #56
rapnie wrote: post #51

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You can put money in the bank as legal income and pay your mortgage with that.

If the idea is to claim to be an escort that only accepts cash, and then report already-possessed cash as income, while also depositing into a bank, then that could have been phrased more clearly. As it stands, it says to actually be as escort and get more money that you have to launder. Plus, there has got to be more critical information -- left out of the comment -- on how to get such a scheme to work. I highly dou…

You might have to do the deed occasionally, to sell the ruse. I never said this would be easy.

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Post by SilasX »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #129
SilasX wrote: post #118

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There’s the scene where Marty takes rooms at the Blue Cat Lodge off the market for renovations, against Rachel’s objections that he wait for the off season, suggesting real stuff is actually being done to them. Then later she confronts him over paying ridiculous prices related for said renovations. (Where she also threatens to report him.) His cartel contact Del is mentioned as running a construction and remodeling b…

Yes, he does real renovations. But he notes to his wife that he's purchased X square feet of carpet at $Y per square foot, while accounting for it as XXX square feet at $YYY per foot. (Both figures much higher than the reality.) The difference between $YYY and $Y is money that was claimed to change hands, but never did, and the difference between XXX and X is carpeting that Marty has recorded himself purchasing, but…

Hm, okay, you're right, that part doesn't make sense, I'll have to review it and get the context to see what they were trying to establish with that scene.
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