Who wants to create a global corporate crime syndicate w/ me

[sgreger1]

Damn I was just in Santa Cruz on Sunday. I should have hit you up.

What were you doing over here? Other than the college, this place has no significant value. lol

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

I had to pick up some sweatshirts. Went to a very famous top-water wooden plug builder's shop. Here is some of his work:
http://www.stripersonline.com/surfta...d.php?t=584717

And here's the sweatshirt:

[sgreger1]

Lol, sweet sweatshirt. Where in SC was this place? I thought they only sold pro-Obama sweatshirts in this town.

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

LOL. He works out of his garage. Went to his house up the hill by the university. So there is at least one non-tree hugger in SC. He likes to shoot birds too and makes really nice wooden duck calls LOL.

[sgreger1]

LOL. He works out of his garage. Went to his house up the hill by the university. So there is at least one non-tree hugger in SC. He likes to shoot birds too and makes really nice wooden duck calls LOL.

HAha. What part of SF are you from? Ive had some babysitter issues so we've been staying at my mother-in-law's house in the mission district of san fran for the last week or so, and having her grandma watch her. Sucks commuting to santa cruz each morning.

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Haha. You asked me this already. I'm actually in Pacifica. It's a lot more small town/redneck-ish but very close to the city proper. The mission district is very interesting, but I try to avoid it. That place is nuts, but I do like this place:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...ed=0CAkQnwIwAA

[sgreger1]

Oh now I remember. your the one who lives in Pacifica.

Yah 16'th street is pretty bad in some parts though. Our family own a restaurant on 16'th and van ness and it's pretty grungy. Lots of crazies walking around, but they all get their welfare on the first of the month and buy food so good for business lol.

Good tacos in a few places over there. I've been on an al taco diet lately. I order 1 chile rilleno and 2 carne asada tacos at least twice a day. probably why i'm getting fat lol.

[sgreger1]

Okay so I came across a scam that could work, and is in an emerging market.

In Europe as some of you know, they already have cap and trade, carbon credits etc.

Check out this scam, we could be doing this today:

[scam]


The fraud is based on a what is tax experts and investigators call as a Carroussel fraud with missing traders. This carroussel generates money by stealing value added tax from governments.

The first step of the criminals is to open a trading account with a national carbon registry, in the name of a newly registered company.
From there, this company buys EU emission allowances in another country on one of the six official carbon exchanges in Europe.
After that, these emission allowances are moved to another country, and subsequently sold to an unregulated broker in yet another country.
This broker then charges VAT on these transactions but does not pay the collected VAT to the tax authorities.

Just before the tax authorities realize that this company owes them huge amounts of VAT, basically a period of a few months, the company and its owners disappear.
A new company is set up, using other front men, to repeat the carroussel. Crime rings that run such schemes can have several dozen or hundreds of companies whose real owners are difficult to trace.

Basically, this type of fraud is possible because European countries continue to disagree on single market tax legislation. Carroussel fraud is a constant feature in the European cross-border market and until recently only happened with shipments of valuable goods such as iPods or flat-panel tvs, not with carbon credits.
Europes tax commissioner, in an interview with EUX.TV, has estimated the damage from these carroussel frauds at more than 60 billion euro per year as Euroean finance minister continue to disagree on effective measures to fight this fraud.

[/scam]

[texasmade]

I'm down.