Turkish police detain 40 people over Twitch streamer money laundering scheme
Turkish police detained 40 people last week in relation to an alleged money laundering scheme perpetrated on the streaming platform Twitch, the latest instance of a video game ecosystem being appropriated for purposes of fraud.
Nathan Grayson
With over 9 million user-created channels, Twitch does not lack for nooks and crannies in which unsavory sorts - harassers, spammers and scammers - can hide. (The platform is owned by Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washington Post.) Late last year, this became especially apparent when users mined payout data from an October 2021 Twitch…
