No. “criminal enterprise” is not a useful designator for this. Their primary business is not criminal, and even as an ancillary business, it’s so deeply commingled with legit advertising that it’s very hard to prosecute them as even negligently supporting those crimes.
Also, your local pizza joint likely takes money that was criminally acquired. They are also not a good target to designate as a criminal enterprise.
If you want to be a bit more nuanced and debate whether we should devise and impose some “know your customer” type rules on advertising brokers (or pizza parlours), that could be interesting.
If you have some mafia element that runs a casino as their main profit source that technically legal and makes 90% of their profit through crime, would you say that’s a criminal enterprise?
The pizza joint does not provide a way to target specific demographics who are likely vulnerable to scam attempts and run complex machine learning algorithms that optimize the effectiveness of the scam and auction of the marks to different scammers.
I mean, you’ve embedded the answer in the question, by definition of “mafia”, I think.
The pizza joint does not provide a way to target specific demographics who are likely vulnerable to scam attempts and run complex machine learning algorithms that optimize the effectiveness of the scam and auction of the marks to different scammers.
They might, if they’re in San Francisco and signed up for the SaaS version of business optimization.
What scenario are you imagining where the pizza joint facilities fraud and people get scammed because of the pizza joint that otherwise wouldn’t be reached by the scam?
No. “criminal enterprise” is not a useful designator for this. Their primary business is not criminal, and even as an ancillary business, it’s so deeply commingled with legit advertising that it’s very hard to prosecute them as even negligently supporting those crimes.
Also, your local pizza joint likely takes money that was criminally acquired. They are also not a good target to designate as a criminal enterprise.
If you want to be a bit more nuanced and debate whether we should devise and impose some “know your customer” type rules on advertising brokers (or pizza parlours), that could be interesting.
If you have some mafia element that runs a casino as their main profit source that technically legal and makes 90% of their profit through crime, would you say that’s a criminal enterprise?
The pizza joint does not provide a way to target specific demographics who are likely vulnerable to scam attempts and run complex machine learning algorithms that optimize the effectiveness of the scam and auction of the marks to different scammers.
I mean, you’ve embedded the answer in the question, by definition of “mafia”, I think.
They might, if they’re in San Francisco and signed up for the SaaS version of business optimization.
What scenario are you imagining where the pizza joint facilities fraud and people get scammed because of the pizza joint that otherwise wouldn’t be reached by the scam?