Originally Posted by
cbn42
... If I were trying to launder money, taking it to Walmart or Kmart and using it to pay off a credit card might seem like a good way to do it, so perhaps banks are cautious about this.
Well, that's not how ML'ing is done. You haven't changed the source of the funds, only the type. Thieves are more likely to be using VGCs with stolen CCs.