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Old Jan 10, 2017 | 9:04 am
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dethkultur
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 135
Originally Posted by shitrus
Let me stop you right there and explain to you what money laundering is.

monˇey launˇderˇing
noun
noun: money laundering; noun: moneylaundering
the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.
"he was convicted of money laundering and tax evasion"

Is your money illegally obtained?

If the answer is no, you have absolutely no worry of money laundering.

Also, there is no such thing as "legal money laundering." Money laundering is inherently illegal. There is no such thing as a legal illegal thing.
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Just chill. There are all sorts of legit reasons to get an MO. I once bought a car for $9000 and the seller wanted MO. I went to USPS to get them. If someone asks (which happens 1/100 times) I tell them we use them for budgeting in our family, or I tell them it is for a kid's camp in the summer or piano lessons or something. 1/500 times, an uptight employee at a certain grocery asks if I am using a gift card and says they don't accept, I say thanks and go down the street to the next store, or go to that same one 8 hours later.

Your biggest challenge is to get over your own feelings. You know you are taking advantage of cracks in the system to make some $ and feel like you shouldn't be able to. In reality, the steps you are doing are completely legitimate and done by other people every day for all kinds of reasons. You just need to step up with that mindset, and save your guilt for when you are looking at your bank account statement or point balances, it's a lot easier that way.
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