Originally Posted by
radonc1
I may not have made myself clear.
It's not the use of CCs, but rather the mixing of dirty money with clean.
If you buy a GC with a credit card and then pay that bill with dirty money, and then convert the GC into money via MOs, loading a debit card, etc., then you have washed your dirty money.
If you buy chips using a credit card, and then cash out the chips, then you have produced "clean" untraceable cash.
It's not the payment of the credit card that is the issue with the bank covering the CC.
Are you not able to see how confused your statements are? If you barter apples for oranges because you like fruit salad, you will find that you're only left with oranges.
The very transparent and traceable nature of card transactions disqualifies them for ML purposes. What your last sentence describes is, in fact, the production of the problem ML wants to get rid of: cash. Throwing GCs into this makes matters only worse. Or are they illegal now?
Anyway, we're getting sidetracked. OP's descriptions suggest nothing along the lines of ML. They may have been caught in a wide dragnet without their own fault. There have been various reports like this recently, and the protestations of innocence are all plausible. I'm not sure if it makes sense for those people to file an arbitration claim.