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Money Laundering, rings a bell ?

I thought that was what all the mattress stores were for.

Mattress stores and Psychics. Seriously, there’s thousands of both all across the United States - and I’ve never seen anyone set foot in either.

Psychics are lucrative. They prey on people in the most desperate times of their life and often make off with their life savings. That's why there's one right next to the Louboutin store in Beverly Hills.

Hard to do since most of these are credit card only now.

They are popping up because it is good, mostly passive income if you are in the right area.

"Credit card only" is a sure sign of money laundering: it's a way to game the cash vs credit ratio.

(Edit: maybe "sure sign" is a little bit hasty, but I think the other possible reasons for a "credit card only" sign are actually worse morally than money laundering)

"Credit card only" meant everything have paper trail.

Maybe some tax avoidance scheme, not money laundering.

> "Credit card only" meant everything have paper trail.

Unless you advertise as credit card to outsiders but take cash as part of some scheme

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