This is right - the whole point with money laundering is to have a legitimate business where extra money can come in, apparently from real but untraceable customers, that is really dirty money you control.
Isn't that what the parent described?
Re:An odd discovery on Spotify
by thematrixturtle on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:04AM
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No, they suggested using stolen bank accounts to receive the artist royalties.
I think they meant "stolen identities and legitimate bank account opened by the stolen identity"
Re:An odd discovery on Spotify
by 2000UltraDeluxe on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:38AM
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This. Same thing with Google Play apps and similar where you can get a clean payout and you can buy gift cards for cash.
Back in the days, it was done with SMS payments and "party lines" with per-minute payments.
What you'd want to do is use the dirty money for the bots that drive up the revenue, and the clean account for the artist to collect the royalties. This way the artist has plausible deniability, and if the bank account paying for the bots gets busted, it doesn't matter, you can get a new one.