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I usually go with stupid before malevolent, but is this a possible way to launder money? Just have a really hard time believing people are that stupid.

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How would you launder money with this approach? The amount of downloads/purchases is verifiable as the whole flow of money from buyer to seller. If I sell it 10 times (10 downloads and 10 wire transactions that cover them) how do I put the unaccounted money into the system?

It's a way of turning "dirty" money (e.g. Apple gift cards sourced through phone scams) into "clean" money (payouts from Apple).

Buy App Store gift cards for cash.

I just buy domain names on the whim, personally I see them as monopoly cards.

Own a .org, .net and .com of the same URL and your a winner.

Yearly renewal is around €2k and I only use eight :/

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