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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by kayodelycaon on Saturday May 11, 2024 @08:48PM (#40331590)
I think it’s pretty simple. To many people, $3,750 is a huge amount of money. It’s easily several months salary.

I think a lot of people would be relatively unaware of how illegal a given thing is and would instead see the amount of money being offered as representative of the risk. Too much and they would get suspicious.

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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by titanomachy on Saturday May 11, 2024 @11:05PM (#40332042)
This was the UK. I don’t think $4k is “many months salary” for a lot of people in the UK.
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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by SoftTalker on Saturday May 11, 2024 @11:41PM (#40332139)
It's certainly the case in the US for many people, why would it not be in the UK?
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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by kortilla on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:16AM (#40332255)
Even at effective minimum wage of 11.80 an hour[1], that’s only 2 months of salary. That’s not life altering in any way and wouldn’t be worth prison time to people in general. People have to have been tricked about the risks or were coerced.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by benjaminwootton on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:41AM (#40332315)
People on minimum wage don’t get a chance to build savings are probably living month to month. Though it’s not an earth shattering of money it is meaningful to a lot of people.
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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by ben_w on Sunday May 12, 2024 @02:45AM (#40332647)
Further to the same point, there's a cost of living crisis in the UK, so many people even above minimum wage are having to use food banks.

I can easily believe someone in such a position would jump (well, politely queue, they are British) at a chance for a "mere" few thousand.

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Re:Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest ... by swarnie on Sunday May 12, 2024 @04:20AM (#40332977)
Because we have a national minimum wage which works out to over 2k once converted in to USD.

Even at the minimum legal level and without a raft of government hands outs which a person could expect its maybe 6-7 weeks salary.

If we take the average salary then take home per month is pocket change short of $3000

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