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Money laundering is a criminal activity. Bankrate explains how it works.
Money laundering is the practice of making money that was gained through criminal means, such as smuggling weapons, look as if it came from a legitimate business activity.
Money laundering often involves financial institutions to make the money look as if it came from a legal source. Instead of depositing a large sum of money all at once at a bank, a money launderer will deposit small sums over time to avoid drawing attention. Money earned illegally may be taken to a country where money laundering laws aren’t as strictly enforced, but this often requires smuggling cash across national borders.
There are three steps in money laundering:
One common way to launder money is to set up a legitimate business, called a “front,” and pad each day’s earnings. The business merges the illegal funds with the business’ legitimate funds to conceal the source of the dirty money. By falsifying the earnings, the business mingles the legitimate funds with the illegal funds so that it’s difficult to distinguish between the two.
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A couple earn a large sum of money through drug trafficking and need a way to disguise the source of their income. They decide to open a restaurant with the dirty money. Each day, when they record their earnings in the books, they pad what they claim to have made. Over time, their drug money is incorporated into their legitimate earnings and the couple are able to start spending the money without any record of how they truly obtained it. The drug money has been laundered.
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There are many ways scammers can steal identities and use them for gain, usually of a financial nature.
A significant portion of Americans experience financial worries.
Identity theft is a term that covers a variety of crimes in which someone steals another person’s personal information.
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If you discover the breach early and act without delay, you could minimize the damage.
Here’s a breakdown of where identity theft occurs most often, according to FTC data.
Stay alert and don’t think identity theft can’t happen to you.