Organized crime is laundering money through Fortnite's in-game currency

I’ve wondered for a few years now about so many “freemium” mobile games where they talk about how the top .1% of users spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on a boring cow clicker is really talk about how these games get used for money laundering. Are “whales” much more prevalent in games where it is possible to convert the in-game currency into something you can convert into real money?

It seems entirely possible that money laundering is a full time job where you run hundreds of variations on the same scam over and over again across every possible service you can find.

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