Platforms facilitating the buying, selling, and management of virtual real estate within digital environments such as the metaverse. Users can trade, develop, or access ownership tokens for virtual spaces, often leveraging blockchain technology to track and verify ownership.
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Virtual Real Estate Platforms
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Code
PS0030
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Name
Virtual Real Estate Platforms
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Version
1.0
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Category
Crypto & Digital Asset Services
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Created
2025-03-14
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Modified
2025-04-02
Related Techniques
- Criminals can purchase and resell virtual real estate with illicit proceeds, taking advantage of the complex, metaverse-based transactions to conceal the original source of funds.
- Rapid flipping of digital assets (e.g., virtual land or property) lends a veneer of legitimate trading activity, laundering money under seemingly normal market transactions.
- Illicit tokens acquired via decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are easily funneled into these platforms, layering funds among legitimate user activity and obscuring AML trails.
- Illicitly obtained tokens are used to purchase digital real estate and other metaverse assets, adding complexity to ownership structures.
- Rapid resale of these virtual properties to legitimate buyers integrates the proceeds back into new tokens or widely used cryptocurrencies with minimal apparent connection to the original illicit source.
- The emerging nature of virtual real estate transactions and variable regulatory oversight enable criminals to obscure the trail of illegal funds.