Linden Lab is hiring a Senior Compliance Analyst for Sansar, and the job description vividly illustrates just how deadly serious a job like that has become. Used to be that a role like this might focus mainly on everyday consumer issues like credit card fraud/misuse (i.e. kids secretly using their parents' cards to buy virtual gold). Nowadays, however, it reads like a job description for someone in the FBI:
The ideal candidate for this position will be responsible for supporting and maintaining various compliance activities and programs, including the Customer Identification program and associated vendor management processes. Responsible for monitoring and assessing compliance issues concerning the patterns and trends associated with money laundering and other potential compliance-related risks. Assist with mitigating money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud related risks, and gathering data and documents for state exams.
Yes -- actual terrorism in the virtual world:
I first heard about this over a decade ago when an Al Qaeda expert told me jihadist cells were meeting in Second Life, an idea that provoked skepticism at the time. But now, it's taken as granted and something to list in a job description.
Same goes with money laundering: Just today, Valve announced that nearly all (!) microtransactions in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are being used for money laundering.
Read the full job description here, and good luck!
Coo, wish I had known about the money making chances in that valve place, I would have redirected my savings for a group premium :) (I am not allowed one because reasons). OK, it is valve so probably bollox..
OK, job interview goes
Generic TechBro Interviewer : (blah blah )how would you deal with (blah)
Bloke in ill fitting suit : 'nice scam you have here, shame if anything was to happen to it'
Interviewer : Interesting - your views on compliance?
Bloke : '75% skim or we send in the heavies'
Interviewer : Congrats you are hired:)
Odd really as I still trust the Lab to do it right.
PS your link back to that 2007 piece was a blast - I was involved (very minorly) in the case against the Prof cited in later years. (CTC ruling CSJ Ontario)
Posted by: sirhc desantis | Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 01:48 PM
Money laundering in Sansar? That's pretty funny. Does anybody even cash out?
Posted by: Susan Wilson | Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 04:50 AM
They already have compliance analysts. This is just an additional headcount they is looking for.
Posted by: Robyn | Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 04:06 AM