Webupon > Web Talk

Laundering Money with E-gold and Paypal

As we all probably heard, E-gold was brought up on money laundering charges. I didn't follow the whole story but it did get me thinking about the whole topic.

Any drug dealer or other criminal could have a few bank accounts than transfer their dirty money over to Paypal or e-Gold without pretty much a trace. After it posts those accounts you can pretty much do whatever you want with the money.

Again, I didn't follow the whole story but if this is true then can you imagine the money thats already been laundered through these programs? Its amazing to me that no matter how good security is on these types of on line payment sites, criminals can always come up with a way to get around it.

I guess e-Gold and Paypal and all other online payment sites are going to have to start to crack down because within time it can become a much bigger problem then it is now. I personally don't think they will because either way pay pal and e-gold have their fee's so why would they crack down and lose money?

If you ask me, everybody is out to make a fast buck whether its legal or not. People don't really care but e-gold and pay pal have found a way with their fee's to cash in on the money laundering thats going on through their sites.

0
Liked It
I Like It!
Related Articles
Money Laundering with E-gold and Pay Pal 2  |  Differences Between Paypal and E-gold
More Articles by C.Nicholson
Money Laundering with E-gold and Pay Pal 2  |  Are Myspace and Facebook a Danger?
Latest Articles in Web Talk
Three Fun Time-Wasting Games  |  Call to Nowhere
Comments (4)
#1 by lizzie2uk, Sep 11, 2007
I don't think Paypal has been brought up on charges of money laundering but I see what you mean about the posibilities. However, Paypal is very secure and performs lots of checks on business accounts. They even checked out my UK address and phone number, so they do know who has accounts and where they live.
#2 by swordfish, Sep 11, 2007
Its very hard to launder money through these accounts. The pay pal account does a check on your personal banking account 1st to check to see if you are who you say you are. Its the same if you set up a buisness account. Its all interlinked and can be traced back to the source.

Its sounds like a market gimic, to get more people to open accounts.
#3 by Td, Sep 12, 2007
This is totally incorrect about E-gold You can't just transfer the money in your bank accounts into an e-gold account You have to exchange your national currency through a separate 3rd party exchanger who hopefully follows kyc and other guidelines.



#4 by me, Apr 24, 2008
What if your paypal wasnt linked to a banking account?
What if you sold "nurses uniforms" on ebay which was really a secret code for one tablet of E or something.
So then the money goes into your paypal account and you post off the E tablet.
So you have $40 in your paypal account now. You need to buy some saucepans and so you pay the $40 for the saucepans and no one is the wiser.
Too easy.
Post Your Comment:
Name:  
Copy the code into this box:  
Inside Webupon

Audio

 /

Blogging

 /

Browsers

 /

E-mail

 /

File Sharing

 /

Hosting

 /

Marketing

 /

Money Making

 /

Search Engines

 /

Security

 /

Services

 /

Social Bookmarking

 /

Social Networks

 /

Video

 /

Web Design

 /

Web Talk


Popular Tags
Popular Writers
Webupon
About Us
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Services
Submit an Article
Advertise with Us
Contact

© 2007 Copyright Stanza Ltd. All Rights Reserved.