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Why would it be money laundering? For something to be money laundering there has to be a base crime and the money in question has to be proceeds from that crime. Onlyfans and similar - while questionable morally - is not questionable legally.
How exactly would you launder money through OF? If someone has dirty money on their bank accounts, they're doing crime wrong. If it was stolen cards she'd have enormous chargeback percentage and it would be clear she's involved in card banging. If someone had cash to launder, they'd do it via a tanning salon. If someone had crypto to launder they'd wash it through monero.
It would more likely be the owners of OF that launder the money. They could create fake profiles of girls, then create fake accounts that follow the girls and pay membership/give donations. Those donations would be the dirty money. Yes they’d still have to be from some kind of banking institution, but once it goes through OF it becomes “clean”.
That wouldn't work at all. For that theory to hold true, they would have to have literally thousands of bank accounts with dirty money in them. There is AML software that would detect these kinds of transactions. Each of which required ID and KYC to create? Transfer to and from these accounts to even distribute the "dirty money" would leave a huge paper trail and probably tax liabilities. They'd be busted by the 2nd day.
What kind of operation would they even be running that they would end up with dirty money on thousands of bank accounts? Money laundering like I said requires a "base crime". The money has to be dirty because of something, like drugs, fraud/scams, prostitution depending on jurisdiction, etc. Money that requires laundering is always going to be cash or crypto. If you have money in a bank account that still requires laundering, you're already fucked. Besides that, running money through onlyfans to launder it would be *ridiculously* expensive because high-risk credit card processing fees are higher then normal transactions, plus corporate tax and then finally tax on dividends or payroll. They'd lose like 40% of the money. There's just cheaper ways to do it.
Unfortunately, OF is legitimately that big and it's, from a legal standpoint, a legitimate legal business. It's probably not unheard of for platforms that have affiliate models working with a pornstar to bang stolen cards but the site owner would catch on pretty quickly because they'd see money heading to a specific performer frequently getting chargebacks.
What kind of operation would they even be running that they would end up with dirty money on thousands of bank accounts? Money laundering like I said requires a "base crime". The money has to be dirty because of something, like drugs, fraud/scams, prostitution depending on jurisdiction, etc. Money that requires laundering is always going to be cash or crypto. If you have money in a bank account that still requires laundering, you're already fucked. Besides that, running money through onlyfans to launder it would be *ridiculously* expensive because high-risk credit card processing fees are higher then normal transactions, plus corporate tax and then finally tax on dividends or payroll. They'd lose like 40% of the money. There's just cheaper ways to do it.
Unfortunately, OF is legitimately that big and it's, from a legal standpoint, a legitimate legal business. It's probably not unheard of for platforms that have affiliate models working with a pornstar to bang stolen cards but the site owner would catch on pretty quickly because they'd see money heading to a specific performer frequently getting chargebacks.