🎮 To use fake account 💸 To hide money

to smurf

1 9.9

To make many small cash deposits to hide illegal money from banks

verb
/smɜrf/

NSFW

: lavar dinero

To bypass reporting laws, they decided to smurf the cash in several small transactions.

Examples

Criminals often smurf large sums of money into smaller deposits to avoid bank scrutiny.
The investigators discovered that the suspects had smurfed the funds through dozens of accounts.
He tried to smurf the money to avoid taxes.
They often smurf their earnings to stay under the radar.
Criminals often smurf their earnings by making small bank deposits to evade scrutiny.
To avoid triggering the reporting requirements, he decided to smurf the cash he earned from the sale.
Money launderers frequently smurf funds through numerous small purchases to conceal their illicit activities.

Synonyms

to launder

vsto smurf

NSFW

48 8.4

To hide illegally gained money by moving it through legal businesses to look legal

focuses specifically on many small transfers to avoid reporting requirements

to launder money

vsto smurf

NSFW

31 7.4

To hide money earned in illegal ways by moving it through banks or businesses

involves doing many small transactions to escape detection or reporting

Antonyms

to declare

Formal

937 3.7

To officially tell other people or officials about something

to report

533 1.6

To tell someone in authority that a person has broken a rule or law

How Hidden

to launder

NSFW

48 8.4

to smurf

NSFW

1 9.9

to deposit

67 2.2

Surface Forms

smurf infinitive

smurfed past

smurfed past participle

smurfing present participle

smurfs third person singular

Etymology

Smurf comes from the comic name Schtroumpf, the small blue characters created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo. People call splitting large sums into many tiny deposits 'smurfing' because it is like using lots of little 'smurfs' to hide the money, so the term means making many small transactions to avoid notice.