Terrorist Financing Activities Examples

Terrorist financing activities examples are useful because the methods are rarely exotic. They use ordinary channels, which is what makes them difficult to see.

• Cash physically carried across a border, in amounts below declaration thresholds.
• Funds sent through remittance or informal value transfer arrangements that leave a thin record.
• Trade invoicing that over states or under states the value of goods to move value between parties.
• Misuse of a not for profit or charitable structure, sometimes without the organisation’s knowledge.
• Prepaid cards and stored value products layered to break the link between payer and beneficiary.
• Small amounts collected from many contributors, none large enough to trigger a threshold.

None of these is unusual on its own. Detection comes from the combination and from whether it fits what the customer said they do.

AUSTRAC publishes typologies. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

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