How does cash laundering work?

[lagubaguba]

I gave the Cash Laundering guy around $1000. How will I be able to get my profits from it, and how long does it take?

[teedis]

I believe 40% is instantly transferred to your bank account, and thats it.

[Ninefinger]

Cash laundering is currently useless as you can deposit however much you want at night without raising your DEA wanted meters.

[lumpsi]

You can also deposit at ATM to not pay the fee. Best during police hours because of exposure

[lagubaguba]

Originally posted by Clockwork Orange:

Cash laundering is currently useless as you can deposit however much you want at night without raising your DEA wanted meters.

Originally posted by lumpsi:

You can also deposit at ATM to not pay the fee. Best during police hours because of exposure

Originally posted by teedis:

I believe 40% is instantly transferred to your bank account, and thats it.

Thank you all for explaining a little bit :)

[bUrnIt]

So no need for money sinks yet (people exploiting the ATM and gap-wall OF COURSE you have too much money), if you master the game then play on hardest diff, and launder money instead of exploiting the atm, and for bigbig movement: pay the damn cons.worker. Just a thought. Everyone does what they want, just don't complain afterwards(patchs) like so many do. And enjoy the game with more challenge. Peace.

[lagubaguba]

Originally posted by bUrnIt:

So no need for money sinks yet (people exploiting the ATM and gap-wall OF COURSE you have too much money), if you master the game then play on hardest diff, and launder money instead of exploiting the atm, and for bigbig movement: pay the damn cons.worker. Just a thought. Everyone does what they want, just don't complain afterwards(patchs) like so many do. And enjoy the game with more challenge. Peace.

How are people exploiting the ATMs? I haven't heard of this.

[Slash2x]

Originally posted by justin:

How are people exploiting the ATMs? I haven't heard of this.

You can deposit MASSIVE amounts of money at night and your meters barely move. Just do it at the start of the night because there is a several in game hour lag on when they "notice" you just did that.

[Sir Kepi]

Originally posted by teedis:

I believe 40% is instantly transferred to your bank account, and thats it.

Actually it's the money laundering guy's fee that's 40% which means 60% of what you give him will be transferred into your account.

Honestly laundering money in this game is NOT worth it. The fee is far too steep. Additionally if you deposit at an ATM at night (police hours) your risk/exposure meters won't rise very much even for decently large transactions (I've done $4k, I've heard that others have done $20k or more), so I'd say the main reasons to launder money are: Realism/lore, MASSIVE transactions.

[morph113]

Originally posted by justin:

Originally posted by bUrnIt:

So no need for money sinks yet (people exploiting the ATM and gap-wall OF COURSE you have too much money), if you master the game then play on hardest diff, and launder money instead of exploiting the atm, and for bigbig movement: pay the damn cons.worker. Just a thought. Everyone does what they want, just don't complain afterwards(patchs) like so many do. And enjoy the game with more challenge. Peace.

How are people exploiting the ATMs? I haven't heard of this.

I think he means that you can currently deposit as much as you want during the night without causing DEA issues. This is something that should definitely be fixed as it makes no sense at all. High deposits on your account should always be suspicious.

I'm pretty sure it's not intended to be this way because it makes money laundering completely useless and the game tip to make sure you don't deposit too much basically is also useless.

[Holyvision]

I can confirm from working on the guide in Steam Guides that we have tested depositing over $9,000,000 cash into the ATM at a time and it will not trigger a raid. The ATM related to the DEA and raids is currently broken or there is something missing from it in the game as it is.

In my personal hard mode game I usually drop about $100k in at a time during the night and the bars move very little at all.

Do not expect it to stay this way as it will get patched and balanced for sure, as it should.

[Cinex920]

this is not a exploit its in ur skilltree ... iam lvl 70 i play on hard and put 30k$ at day time in the ATM ... my bar went into orange and i get a massage with a warning thats all ...

[Yung Television]

Originally posted by Cinex920:

this is not a exploit its in ur skilltree ... iam lvl 70 i play on hard and put 30k$ at day time in the ATM ... my bar went into orange and i get a massage with a warning thats all ...

Who tf gave you the massage?

[bUrnIt]

Yes I meant it's an exploit because it sure looks and feel like one, No illegal-cashflow watch for a lack of better words, players too rich too fast, ask for money sinks, where they should be testing that while not deposing via ATMs. And additionnally: not exploiting border/wall bags-transfer.. Either loose money on cons.worker or loose time successfully trowing a heavy bag over the wall and possibly multiple runs(lighter bags) to complete a transfer crossborder. This is an assignement! XD ill try it on a new Run when i ready for it.

[Cinex920]

its a generally warnig by illigal cash flow