• Dasus@lemmy.world
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      23 天前

      I mean no, it doesn’t, youre right.

      Declaring income would be what most of those charities ans whatnot would prolly need to do somewhere at least. So I find this story dubious.

      At the same time though, it is technically possible for him to have put money on crypto and email someone the keys to the wallets.

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        23 天前

        Even so, all reputable charities have a way to do honest accounting with rich anonymous donors or else that would be a real easy way to wash dirty money.

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          23 天前

          Yeah my point exactly.

          But if this guy wasn’t concerned about washing it and thought to leave that to the charities idk. He was a hacker, not an accountant for a cartel, so can’t expect much.

          But yeah giving away billions of stolen money would be a lot harder than some in the thread seem to think it is. I mean, technically you can give it via crypto but is it then of use is an other question

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            Wouldn’t turning it into cash in separate transactions over some time and then paying it in via proxy be enough to make it untraceable from him? If you knew which charities, I think you’d still be able to track it down, but done that way this is also untraceable.

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              We’re talking about billions. If he was converting $100,000 of that $4b per day, he’d clean his money in… about 109 years.

    • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There is a huge business of money laundering built specifically for this purpose. Any hacker worth their salt should know someone or some place.