• Blackmist
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    8 hours ago

    These fakes have been going for years and were just scams, nothing to do with bots.

    A classic back in the day was an Xbox box.

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      9 hours ago

      Why the fuck are they standing in line waiting for one?

      Consumerism really fucked up our brains.

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 hours ago

        I do t think so, I’m not an expert or anything, but I think money laundering is typically done where you can pay cash.

        The idea is to pay cash for something so that you can show a receipt of a sale and deposit it into a bank.

        If you are buying online, then the money is already in the bank.

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          5 hours ago

          The sellers, friend. They buy the GPU cash and sell it online for a clean transaction into their account. 5k laundered per sale

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      13 hours ago

      I dunno but it’s a good time to capitalize on that eagerness and buy a used 4090 from one of them