Eli5: How did large criminal groups count the millions of dollars they got from big deals?

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Like obviously large crime groups would do deals of drugs, weapons, and other illegal things, for millions of dollars. How did they make sure all the money was legit? Like did they just trust that the shady people they were dealing with would pay them properly? Or did these trades actually take up to hours to process properly. Cuz it just be a bunch of men running the bills through counting machines?

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Of course this depends. Different groups have different amounts of trust against each other. It is hard to imagine someone doing big Mexican standoff style drug deals with millions of dollars involved. But even if this was the case you can take random samples and check it. This will at least make sure that most of the money and product is there which usually makes it a good deal. And short counting is bad for repeat business so if you want to do it you need to do it big.

But there are also big money counting rooms. It could take a few hours to count the money properly and if you are there all the time you could risk an ambush. But if you are not that afraid of an ambush and want to make sure the count is correct then you can ask to stay and inspect the entire counting operation.

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