How can anybody possibly enforce this? Let’s say I’m trying to wire money. At which stage of the process and in what manner do I prove that I’m not on public assistance?
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How can anybody possibly enforce this? Let’s say I’m trying to wire money. At which stage of the process and in what manner do I prove that I’m not on public assistance?
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Yeah, particularly for people sending money to countries whose banking systems aren’t hooked up to ours. How would you ever track that?
AFAICT from using that sort of service, the way it works is, you send money to the money-delivery company in the US, with the contact info of the recipient, and pay them a fee. Then the company sends money to its overseas branch office. Then the overseas branch office takes an envelope of cash and gives it to a kid on a bicycle, and the kid on the bicycle tootles out to the recipient’s house.
None of which is as conveniently trackable as wiring money from a bank account to another bank account.
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Exactly. There’s a million apps that do it. There are so many ways. This sounds nice but it’s fake. Unfortunately.
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“I’m trying to wire money”
Pretty sure Somalis would largely (or mostly) use Hawala which leaves no electronic trace (you pay someone here, someone in Somalia pays the recipient, a bit more complicated than that but not much).
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We used this method back in the USSR when people who managed to get permission to leave would sell their property in the USSR and get paid in the new country. It was a way for emigres to help the relatives they left behind.
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