It’s super obvious, but here you go:
Step one: Trick old people into sending you iTunes gift cards or buy iTunes gift cards with stolen credit cards
Step two: Get an app in the App Store and use the iTunes gift cards to buy it many many times
Step three: Receive 70% of the money you laundered through the App Store from Apple. Pay taxes on it, and you’ve got clean money.
That is not money laundering.
Come on guys, read a bit, don't just parrot back what you see on Netflix.
This is money laundering.
You can also just buy mass amounts of stolen credit cards that have some moderate odds of successfully accepting some number of small ~$100 charges, so you can just do all this yourself. And folks do.
But please tell me what money laundering is and is not. It's not like I have a close to a decade of real world experience in an industry whose primary goals include combating it and working with relevant authorities.