getfiscal posted:i did a tax training thing once and the educator/manager guy told us that all sorts of drug dealers and prostitutes come in to use discount tax services and they were like it's not our business to get them in trouble, just make sure they claim everything, so imagine how actual real criminals get treated by accounting firms lol.
"Thank you for singlehandedly keeping us in liquidity, El Chapo--I mean, Mr. Guzmán!"
getfiscal posted:i did a tax training thing once and the educator/manager guy told us that all sorts of drug dealers and prostitutes come in to use discount tax services and they were like it's not our business to get them in trouble, just make sure they claim everything, so imagine how actual real criminals get treated by accounting firms lol.
money laundering regulation is basically the king of symbolic rubbish covers for criminality, they literally focus on the most benign points even though drugs are so easily available they are effectively not even illegal
like everyone, literally everyone, knows a friend who can buy an almost worldwide illegally produced and smuggled substance from multiple people and its just normal
its ace
Panopticon posted:
it has banks
jeffery posted:stay 'coined
Ok I get that this is a joke, but I keep coming back to this thread asking basically, how do I get this to happen, like what is the clever investing trick that only the smart people know, so I can just fill out a bunch of forms and get more money. And still no answers.
NoFreeWill posted:the funniest part is all the bitter goons in the bitcoin thread who constantly post about how it's a Ponzi scheme that will inevitably fail (maybe), but who could've gotten in on bitcoin at 10 or 30 or 100 dollars and sold at 200 and made a handsome profit.
even IF its a ponzi scheme the coins i bought at 240 will make me a handsome profit when they inevitably hit 1000.
swampman posted:jeffery posted:stay 'coined
Ok I get that this is a joke, but I keep coming back to this thread asking basically, how do I get this to happen, like what is the clever investing trick that only the smart people know, so I can just fill out a bunch of forms and get more money. And still no answers.
get into bitcoin consulting, all you have to do is play father to some strapping bitcoin billionaires
cleanhands posted:hey cia if youre reading this can you let me know which narcostates are ok to invest in, i know youre not down with farc or the mujahid but im assuming youre active in this sector so cut me in. thanks.
as a cia poster: officially none of them, unofficially fuck yeah go all-in on all of them at once
Regulators have cracked down on an alleged Ponzi scheme involving the virtual currency bitcoin as they issue a more general warning about the dangers of such scams for investors.
A Texas man, Trendon T. Shavers, was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday and accused of running a fund that collected bitcoins from investors, promising them 7 percent weekly returns. Mr. Shaver ended up selling some of the bitcoins and using the proceeds for his “rent, car-related expenses, utilities, retail purchases, casinos, and meals,” according to the complaint.
Investors have been willing to pay significant real money for bitcoin since the currency was created by anonymous computer programmers in 2009. As the value of the digital coins has skyrocketed, so has attention from regulators around the world, who have worried about the potential for fraud and money laundering.
In an investor alert released Tuesday, the S.E.C. warned, “We are concerned that the rising use of virtual currencies in the global marketplace may entice fraudsters to lure investors into Ponzi and other schemes in which these currencies are used to facilitate fraudulent, or simply fabricated, investments or transactions.”
In the complaint, the agency said that Mr. Shavers, using the online name “pirateat40,” began advertising the Bitcoin Savings and Trust in 2011 on online forums in 2011. Mr. Shavers promised to make money trading the coins online and deliver the profits to his investors. He ended up collecting more than 700,000 bitcoins, according to the complaint. Those would have been worth about $4.5 million using the conversion rate in 2012, and more than $65 million at today’s rate.
The S.E.C. is asking a federal court in Texas to freeze Mr. Shaver’s assets while the case moves ahead.
Mr. Shaver could not be reached for a comment.
that sounds like the opening line to a pynchon novel