On: UK high street banks are quarantining from crypto

[amluto]

At least in principal, with a service like Western Union, an actual human or other KYC’d entity needs to collect the money at the other end. If you run a $100M ransomware campaign, a very enthusiastic prosecutor is fairly likely to arrange to arrest people well before $100M gets cashed out, and without perfect opsec, you have a problem.

And Western Union respects sanctions.

[richardwhiuk → amluto]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union#Controversies

Not so much.

[amluto → richardwhiuk]

I did say “in principle” for a reason (although I did misspell it).

That being said, with a large enough fraud campaign, law enforcement really could target Western Union’s users.