Online marketplaces that facilitate the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet. These platforms support product listings, payment processing, user account management, and transaction reviews, and may cater to both general and specialized consumer markets.
Main/
E-commerce Platforms
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Code
PS0012
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Name
E-commerce Platforms
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Version
1.0
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Category
E-commerce, Marketplaces & Retail
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Created
2025-03-14
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Modified
2025-04-02
Related Techniques
- Criminals use online marketplaces to resell luxury or high-demand items bought with illicit funds, presenting them as ordinary retail transactions.
- These sales effectively integrate illegal proceeds into legitimate-appearing revenue streams, masking the original criminal source of the money.
- Criminals establish fake or replica storefronts, listing counterfeit or non-existent goods to process sham purchases.
- Fraudulent orders and manipulated refunds enable layering of illicit proceeds, masking them as legitimate commercial transactions and complicating AML checks.
- Fraudsters list non-existent or sham products, receiving payments from collaborators or unwitting customers.
- Such platforms provide a public façade of legitimate retail transactions, integrating illicit funds as apparent sales revenue.
- Provide an online marketplace where exploitative content can be sold under the guise of adult or legitimate offerings.
- Facilitate micro-transactions that camouflage the illicit source of funds, making it difficult to discern legitimate from criminal proceeds.
- Criminals can list or purchase in-game goods or entire accounts, bypassing official platforms with stricter oversight.
- By inflating or undervaluing prices, they layer illicit funds through seemingly legitimate transactions with limited identity verification.
- Provide a marketplace to list and sell in-game assets at inflated or manipulated prices, effectively converting in-game currency back into fiat or cryptocurrency.
- Multiple item listings and frequent small-value trades can further fragment financial trails, making detection of illicit proceeds more difficult.
- Criminals can operate as both seller and buyer, generating fraudulent sales and then initiating chargebacks to siphon illicit funds under the guise of legitimate refunds.
- Automated or limited-oversight dispute mechanisms make it easier to file repeated or high-value chargebacks without immediate detection.
- Criminals can exploit online marketplaces that allow buying, selling, or transferring loyalty points, effectively converting illicit proceeds into near-cash.
- Minimal KYC or transactional scrutiny on some platforms enables rapid transfers of large point balances across multiple accounts or listings, further obscuring the origin of funds and complicating AML efforts.
- Criminals list falsified or substandard medical products on online marketplaces, circumventing regulatory oversight and concealing the nature of these goods.
- Minimal scrutiny and global reach enable large-scale sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, generating proceeds to be laundered later.