Anonymity Snake Oil in JXTA

[jamesd@echeque.com]

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James A. Donald:
> > Perhaps people smurfing money in columbia might form such a
> > group.

On 4 Jul 2001, at 21:30, Aalvarez@gmx.de wrote:
> Why columbia? why not alabama or florida?

That should of course have read "Colombia" not "Columbia"

According to 
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/1999/10/30/drugmoney
1030_01.html
: :	Colombian peso brokers, who act as middlemen in the
: :	scheme, give Colombian importers IOUs in exchange for
: :	pesos. The pesos are used to buy U.S. dollars from
: :	drug cartels, providing the cartels with clean, usable
: :	currency. Then, the brokers use the dollars to buy
: :	U.S. goods and smuggle them into Colombia on behalf of
: :	the importers, who thereby avoid high government
: :	tariffs and taxes on foreign currency exchanges. 

Any time people are shuffling lots of IOUs around, backed by lots of 
different people, it provides a good opportunity for computerization.

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