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1.File fraudulent tax return

2. IRS Computer doesn't catch it (at least in real time) and sends you $12.21 million in refunds. In fact, they might not catch it for years.

3. That is YOUR money as far as Chase, BOFA or whatever bank is concerned. Now transfers might the problem since transferring millions to Russia or any country will get the three-letter agencies talking to each other (after the bank files suspicious activity reports.) What...he got a $12.21 Million in tax refunds...???



Do smaller banks/credit unions tend to file these reports? My guess is that only Chase, Bank of America, etc. do this.


In the US, all banks (as well as other financial institutions) are legally required to file such reports (SARs) with FinCEN.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1020.320#


All transfers over $9999.99 are reported to the federal government.

That includes multiple transfers made within the same 30 day period that in the aggregate would exceed $9999.99.


Yes, and what you are describing is another type of report that is distinct from a “suspicious activity report”. The limit report you described is a hard threshold requirement. This is not the same report as the “suspicious activity report.”

As you know, the suspicious activity report is completely subject to the bank’s discretion.


do they report suspicious transfers--or all transfers around $10k as a matter of routine?


The latter is required; the former is also “required” but more nebulous (it’s only a problem if there is some incident and then during an investigation, look back and it turns out the bank didn’t file the report, creating a convenient scapegoat in an otherwise difficult case).




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