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Mastercard, Visa failed to stop payments on OnlyFans for child sex-abuse content, says whistleblower (www.reuters.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Jan 24 (Reuters) - Mastercard and Visa failed to stop their payment networks from laundering proceeds from child sexual abuse material and sex trafficking on the popular website OnlyFans, according to allegations in a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes unit.

The whistleblower, a senior compliance expert in the credit card and banking industries, said the two giant card companies knew their networks were being used to pay for illegal content on the porn-driven site since at least 2021, and accused them of “turning a blind eye to flows of illicit revenue.”

The complaint was filed in January 2023 with the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments, the whistleblower said.

The complaint said that the whistleblower and other anti-trafficking experts, including U.S. federal agents, alerted Visa and Mastercard to unlawful content on OnlyFans in a series of calls in 2021 and 2022. The federal agents corroborated the presence of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans, the complaint said.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Who tf is paying for CSAM with regular ass money? Isn't that great for law enforcement since t hey can just track a payment to a person and slap the whole mc chicken out of them?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Lots of the people involved in CSAM are stupider than you might think, surprisingly bad at privacy/security given that almost everyone including governments hates them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Criminals in general are stupid. They tend to lack impulse control.

The actual smart ones don’t get caught or steal legally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You right tho.