How cybercriminals profit from money laundering through gambling sites | Linux Today

How cybercriminals profit from money laundering through gambling sites

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Apr 24, 2014

Online gambling involves huge volumes of transactions and cash flows that can obscure and disguise money laundering, according to McAfee. Players are not dealing with a tangible, physical product; physical currency does not change hands.

As a result, illegal proceeds can be laundered by wagering them on one end of a transaction and receiving the payouts as gambling wins on the other end.

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