I've always felt a little unclean buying "new" used goods off of eBay, since odds are it was probably lifted off a truck or a shelf.

Now I'm hearing interesting reports of things like used video cards and other items going for curious prices, often 10X to 100X what they're really worth. But always for just a little bit less than $10,000. Which just so happens to be just below the cutoff for having to report the transaction to the feds. This smells like money laundering. Who knows if the video card even existed, but it sounds like a great way to wash cash. Do it 100 times, and you just laundered a million bucks.

Or am I paranoid and this is too simplistic? I figure some of our banking guru's might have some intersting comentary on this!