smurfer

smurfer (plural smurfers)

1. Someone who engages in money laundering by making many transactions, each of which is for an amount below the threshold that requires the bank to report the transaction.
   • 1986, Washington Financial Reports - Volume 47, page 973:

     He argued that the government would have to show that the smurfer knew about the banks ' filing requirements and deliberately structured his transaction to avoid the requirements.

   • 1992, Joel M. Androphy, White collar crime - Part 1, page 290:

     Assume a smurfer goes to the bank numerous times in one day, and each time buys a cashier's check with cash for an amount less then $10,000, but in total greater than $10,000.

   • 2013, Philip Bean, Drugs and Crime, page 161:

     In one interesting case, a smurfer was caught with a number of caches of monies to be deposited. He told the police, correctly, that the monies did not belong to him. When the police compounded the monies the smurfer wisely asked for a receipt. He would have to convince his immediate superiors that he had not kept the monies himself.

• ferrums

From smurf (“type of breakdance”) +‎ -er (first group verb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /smœʁ.fe/

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• Rhymes: -e

smurfer

1. to breakdance

• “smurfer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

smurfer

1. indefinite plural of smurf