The question that I think people need to ask pretty sharply is "why do these people need *my* account"? Bank accounts aren't that hard to set up. They don't tend to have limits on how much you can use them and they don't go bad.
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You also need to ask "what am I adding to this process". If you are just taking money from person A and sending to person B, why can't person A send it to person B?
Because the obvious answer to both is that your account is being used to obfuscate the flow of money. They don't want your account. They want your profile as a normal law abiding citizen. They need a lot of accounts so the transactions can be small and get lost in the noise.
There are ethical reasons to want to do this -- governments don't always do the right thing -- but it's the kind of things that governments get cranky about.
You'd think these people would've figured out how to use something like Monero or Zcash to do this sort of thing without a bunch of paper trails for the Feds to follow.
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