It also makes sense to me to avoid, as far as possible, financial transactions using cash, money orders or other hard-to-trace instruments. So, it might be a good idea to be proactive and call your bank ahead of time to let them know of any unavoidable upcoming unusual activity, just like you might call your credit card issuer to let them know if you’re going on an international vacation. Obviously, you don’t want anyone to think you’re even close to the money laundering process. I can also say that big deviations from your usual banking patters (especially if you are in a HIFCA) would probably put you at risk of tripping over an AML rule as well. What I can say is that I accidentally stumbled onto an AML trigger when I got my vacation refunds. Obviously, AML policies and triggers are secret (otherwise, criminals would know exactly how to avoid them), so I’m doing some semi-educated guessing here (and I don’t want to do lots of internet research on it and trigger something myself). Paying large credit card balances in bank branches with cash or money orders*.
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