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How This Man Used His American Express To Make an Infinite Money Machine (Tax Free) - #Shorts
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This man effectively created a free money machine and used it to make over three hundred thousand dollars completely legally and completely tax free.

Konstantine Anikeev signed up for an American Express which offered a cash back offer on purchases made in certain grocery stores. He used this credit card to buy pre-paid visa cards which he would then use to buy money orders which he would deposit back into his bank account to pay off the credit card he used to make the purchase in the first place.

The trick was that the fees from the pre-paid cards and the money orders ended up totalling around 4% of the transaction value, 1% less than he made in cash back rewards from his Amex, allowing him to profit off the difference, this quickly added up as he churned through over 30 million dollars in gift cards.

The best part is that credit card rewards are not considered income in the eyes of the IRS so Konstantineā€™s profits were all tax free!

Unfortunately, if you are planning on replicating this infinite money machine the credit card companies are one step ahead of you and pre-paid cards no longer count towards cash back offers.


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@Moliminous

2 years ago

Bro how was he not on a list. Who goes through 30 million worth of gift cards lol

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@mrjjwwjj

2 years ago

This guy is the real-life version of the people who find exploits in games.

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@Draxis32

2 years ago

This mans financial report be like:
"Sir, we have found a way to increase profits by 1%!"
"YOU PUT 30 MILLION IN IT RIGHT NOW!"

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@HeyaHoyah

2 years ago

He beat credit cards by using their system against them. They got mad because instead of their users losing money, they did

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@wolfpackgaming2492

2 years ago

Thereā€™s more to this story. He was taken to court by the irs over this and ultimately won the case but the judge ruled that the way he made the cash back was deemed as taxable so he had to pay the taxes on the cash back

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@MrHoodlin

2 years ago

Money wasn't actually created out of thin air. He was transfering the wealth of the credit card company to himself.

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@angelodidomenico5532

2 years ago

You know how it is

you either are a fart smella or a smart fella

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@Ndasuunye

2 years ago

This man is also the reason why the game of credit card churning has changed so much. That loophole couldn't last forever

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@bry120

2 years ago

He's gansta until the card company released a software patch

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@phillipjones5794

2 years ago

I bet his credit score was incredible being able to pay off all he put on that cardā€¦

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@rodneyjarrell8654

2 years ago

Gotta give him ā€œcredit ā€œ,just realizing this

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@dizzle6709

2 years ago

Thatā€™s called ā€œmanufactured spendingā€ and it usually gets your card stopped in a very short amount of time. In the first or second time doing it youā€™d get a call from your credit card company.

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@brianborkowski5977

2 years ago

The 5%cash back for American Express is up to 6k spent, then drops to 1% . Maybe he did this before cap of 6k was put in place

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@juangringo3906

2 years ago

And he would have got away with it if not for those rascally IRS Agents. Lol

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@mattcollins4550

2 years ago

Pretty sure they have "fixed" this glitch

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@chrisortiz8072

2 years ago

So he is why there is a limit on cashback for most cards? This man had a full time job lol

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@1timothydillon

2 years ago

And I thought using $8.89 of my rewards for a used, like new, copy of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Boogle, was smart.

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@cho9171

2 years ago

Reminds me of the time someone did something similar with them dollar coins they were selling on tv. The guy bought the coins dollar for dollar with his credit card and went to the bank to deposit the coins back into his account. Made profit from the credit card rewards until the caught on and stop it.

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@Zeero3846

2 years ago

This is why there are different rates for "cash advances". A prepaid card will often count as one, as will buying crypto or gold, even though these are very stretched definitions of cash advances. I know Chase does this.

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@unholynexus

2 years ago

This is why we canā€™t have nice thingsā€¦people like himā€¦but man that was smart.

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