Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen

Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by Turing_Machine on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:11PM (#38396978)

Step 1: Create an app and put it in the app store.

Step 2: Generate a bunch of fake accounts in many different countries, and fund them with the dirty money.

Step 3: Have all these accounts buy the app. Make sure you don't have them all buy it at once, or otherwise have a suspicious purchase pattern.

Step 4: Collect the (now clean) funds from the app store,

Okay, how does Apple "actively prevent" this? They don't have to enable anything.

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by moralestapia on Thursday November 23, 2023 @04:44PM (#38397917)

Here's the difference,

In the art world there is (or at least, was) some level of secrecy in the transactions and parties involved.

Apple would give up all information it has about you to law enforcement at the slightest suspicion of some shenanigans happening. They also comply with all KYC requirements from the law. That's how (among other things) they "actively prevent" people using their platform for criminal activities. Heck, at their scale, they must have an entire team devoted to doing just that.

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