Postby Seymore » Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:20 pm
Click wrote:Seymore wrote:I don't know anything regarding the criminality of gambling either on the State or Federal level. However, I do know that financial institutions have strict guidelines for following gambling proceeds being deposited in the institution. Especially if money is being moved from offshore. It's called money laundering and bank's are required by Federal regulation to report those accounts and people involved. They have software to mine transaction information called anomalies of suspected accounts. If I were still in banking and either of these cats had any accounts at the bank I worked for, you can bet your booty the first thing I'd be doing Monday morning is calling the internal auditors. Just something else to consider before airing the dirty laundry all over the internet.
On a personal note it certainly has livened the place up. I'm going to go get some popcorn now.
Why we give a caca about gambling in this country is beyond me.
Gambling is linked to other crimes as a way of laundering large sums. The two biggest problems are terrorism and drug trafficking. The internet offers a lot of anonymity and finding who is just gambling for personal reasons and one who is using it to move money is hard. So the Feds do what they have done many times in the past, require the banks to implement monitoring software and alert the Feds when an "anomaly" happens. Same type thing happened with the Y2K panic. Everyone thought the world was going to end and the only industry that was so far ahead of the curve was banking. So to force other industries into addressing their own Y2K issues they required the banks to obtain answers to several questions from a potential commercial borrower. The logic used was that the loan would be in jeopardy if the borrower was not Y2K ready. Not only did the potential borrower have to submit their own plans for addressing Y2K, it required that any suppliers of raw materials used by the borrower must also be Y2K ready. If the borrower didn't want to fool with all this that was fine, it just meant the bank couldn't loan that customer any money. So using the banks as far as the Feds were concerned was a very big stick. Another example is the requirement that any cash transaction of $10K or more be reported to the IRS. If a customer tried to break $10K and over into smaller transactions, called smurfing, the banks are required to catch that as well. Run a google search on gambling and terrorism or gambling and drug trafficking. I found a USA today article that does a pretty good job of breaking down the basics and have pasted it below.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... n/5055941/
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Those who can do. Those who can't get on MSDUCKS and try to convince everyone they can.