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Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by vmception on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:17AM (#24579394)
SARs are just spam. There is nothing to deal with. Its an odd name for a receipt that gets printed at the bank's discretion.
Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by defterGoose on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:24AM (#24579462)
Can I just ask...WTAF are you talking about? Because you sound like a troll.
Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by vmception on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:05PM (#24580021)
That a suspicious activity report is not indication of a crime, anything suspicious, and a lot of them get filed many times automatically
Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by lixtra on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:16PM (#24580967)
I would appreciate if you could point to some actual data (number of SARs per year in country, false positives...).
Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:15PM (#24583748)
In 2019 for example, the US had 2.7 million SAR filings. (https://www.fincen.gov/reports/sar-stats, all industry types + year 2019 + all states), compared to a touch above 5,000 white collar federal prosecutions (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-collar-crime-prosecutions...). It's hard to directly calculate a "false positive rate" from those things, because some criminals may generate multiple SARs and others may simply go unprosecuted, but I think such a vast gulf is pretty inconsistent with an idea that most SARs report crimes.

It's certainly conventional wisdom in financial circles that a SAR is worth about as much as a user report on a Reddit comment.

Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by vmception on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:35PM (#24581917)
I just don't find your cognitive dissonance to be relevant.

You’re asking for something to be proved - or supporting evidence that requires a whole dissertation - because your exposure is starting from a position that is fundamentally wrong.

“Suspicious” is a misnomer referring to an automatic reporting threshold, that in fewer additional circumstances allows for discretion in filing. The end.

Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by lixtra on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:22PM (#24582484)
> from a position that is fundamentally wrong

I’m baffled how asking for data is revealing my position?

I had the hope that your position is well founded and it would be easy to point to actual data.

I hardly believe that the compliance laws are not accompanied by studies that collect the data that i asked for. So it should be out there.

Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity by vmception on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:55PM (#24583528)
Like I said, I dont find your cognitive dissonance relevant enough to want to do that research for you. If you do research it, I hope the filter bubble Google put you in lets you get access to this version of reality.

Good luck.