I just got back from Belize and need to answer your post about the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Do you think that the people of Oklahoma would tolerate the scenario your posting indicated? The scanner they use will only freeze the amount on a prepaid card. It will not process a credit or debit card.
Money laundering uses prepaid cards to bypass cash. If the owner of the card is found innocent or no charges filed, the card is restored.
Two major interstate highways intersect in Oklahoma as well as many rural highways that are used by drug runners. They deliver the drugs and take a prepaid card. No cash to worry about being confiscated. Again, if the money is in the bank or credit, the hop scanner doesn’t work.
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