Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash His Rented Car's Windows

Re:Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash Hi... by FireBeyond on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:06PM (#38008293)

Turo is also a good "vehicle" for money laundering.

In my area there's multiple Chrysler 300Cs and others for rent. Kinda. They're listed at $600/day, and often booked for weeks on end.

Great idea if you're a drug dealer. Give your customer free product/cash/whatever, they "rent" your car (at no point do they actually get your car), and you send them the requisite odometer pictures at the start and end of each "rental", rinse and repeat.

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Re:Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash Hi... by gruez on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:55PM (#38008618)

Isn't it far easier to claim you're babysitting/housesitting/house cleaning/car detailing? It's not like those activities (or any other types of services, for that matter) leaves any physical evidence? If anything doing "car rentals" is going to leave more evidence, given how much of a privacy nightmare they are (they basically have an always on cell modem).

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Re:Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash Hi... by stevenae on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:58AM (#38014143)

A key part of laundering is having a legitimate entity which processes the funds -- in this case, Turo.

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