Stuff it between your butt cheeks.
As long as you’re traveling with under $10,000 I believe law enforcement should leave you alone if you’re stopped and searched?
you can travel with what you like....I prefer to split it up and hide it well...No need to ever go into the SC with more than 1K in the wallet in my book....I often carry 20-30K for trading purposes but it is well hidden in the car and not on me.
Seriously, be a law abiding citizen. Cops in some jurisdictions will stop you for any reason or no reason at all. If they find a stash of cash they can confiscate it as “proceeds of drug sales”. Even a few hundred bucks. They don’t even have to charge you with anything. Highway robbery really.
Decent amount of cash - I assume you mean around $100K.
And your are traveling overseas by air - with security, immigration and customs checks along the way.
Generally $10K is the limit for cash on hand with no questions asked.
Above that you have to declare it and state the source and/or purpose of carrying it with you.
Source can be life savings added penny by penny, or any of the other million sources of income.
purpose of carrying with you can be "you don't trust the banks" or "cash to party like a drunk sailor"
If you are traveling alone - it's not safe to carry decent amount of cash. And it's a hassle.
And I wouldn't stuff it in my butt cheeks like Shailynn - and I'd be leery doing any cash business with him!
Just put it in your bank's checking account.
Through ATMs, it is accessible anywhere in the world - in local currency.
Although there is withdraw limit of $1000 per transaction and upto $3000 per day.
However, during bank hours you can use that debit card to withdraw larger amounts.
Generally the ATM conversion is at a better rate than airport currency exchange kiosks.
And the fees is similar to local withdraws (& lot better than strip club ATMs !)
... ATM lot better and lot more convenient than travellers checks.
I'm going to assume that this question is serious...
Never put it in checked luggage. Too many people can steal from it.
If you are traveling with over 10k overseas, you have to declare it before you go through security.
There is no legal limit on how much cash you transport domestically, but you will likely be stopped and questioned if you are carrying large sums of money through airport security.
With the advent of ATM and credit cards, there really is little reason to carry large sums of cash anymore. By large, I mean over 10k. If you are traveling domestically, just open a bank account with one of the big national banks and be sure that there are branches near where you will be staying. Also, no decent hotel will let you stay without providing a credit/debit card anyway, so you might as well pay by card.
Good luck.
You should provide us with an idea of how much cash. The guesses here are from $10k - $100k. It’s far easier to conceal $10k.
If you plan to withdraw those funds from the bank - there will be questions as that is a threshold for additional documentation - to prevent money laundering.
^ Cash is right, but questions at a local bank branch where you are staying are much better than being pulled aside by TSA in the airport. Also, the bank cannot legally prevent you from taking your cash if you have an active account, but rather will just file a large transaction report with FinCen (which gets millions of these per year that go nowhere). If TSA contacts the DEA while you are at the airport for suspicion of [xyz], the DEA could actually seize your cash.
Traveling with lots of cas by car is dicey as mentioned some police forces can confiscate the money especially if found in conjunction with any illegal drugs. There was s poker crew a couple years ago that got busted driving through Iowa with over $100k bankroll and had weed too and lost everything to the local police with no recourse. It is legal theft but thats the way it is right now with suspected drug runners. IMO Airborne travel is safer. The most I ever moved was $50k returning flying from a trip back from Las Vegas. $10k stacks were individually wrapped in plastic grocery bags and rubber banded the all wrapped in another and secured in my carry on luggage. Primarily I was worried about TSA tampering or theft so I made it difficult to lift anything easily. I also inventory right after they scan baggage. I frequently travel with over $10k on gamble trips and never had a problem with TSA (but I make it hard for them to try).
Best of advice is just bank and move money by withdrawing from the bank when you get there. If you are doing something shady then good luck with that. Maybe watch Breaking Bad or something for tips.
^Upright, or he could travel by car and just be sure not to be carrying any drugs in the car, lol. I've been pulled over countless times in various states and never, not once, had my vehicle searched. Also, Iowa was an outlier in pulling that shit and has since changed its policies.
RD I understand just being suspected of being a smuggler can result in seizure with a battle to prove the money is not ill-gotten. Drugs do not have to be directly involved. I agree neither have I but Juice driving his rusty 1998 econoline with the waterbed in back may invite suspicion.
I think it’s more “explainable” if there are no drugs in the car - and the occupants are warrant free - if there’s $10k or less.
Over $10k can raise suspicions. Especially if the occupants are convicted felons - with past drug arrests. I don’t think they can seize the money, but the process (of clearing your name) could waste a significant amount of time.
I’ve learned two things on this thread:
Although juicebox69 seems like a brilliant sort of fellow I’m not doing a road trip with him. I’m not worried about the cash seizure issue, but the rusty Econoline sounds unsafe! ;)
I’m never getting in a car with rickdugan. In addition to his drunk driving issues he apparently gets pulled over in every state. If true, I suspect he’s lying about never getting searched. I’d search the car of some polyester suit-wearing weirdo on general principle if I was a cop! ;)
Before we keep going with this ridiculous conversation, maybe Juice could provide us with the fictional amount he would like to transport. That way we can stop spinning our wheels with idle speculation.
I think Juice’s reply could be hilarious - if he’s moving $1500 for a shipment of chicken fingers, bbq sauce and Four Lokos - and a box of used Swank mags!
For some reason I think Juice is lubing up a few stacks of bills - getting ready to mule his cash across the country. Hopefully he won’t eat any exlax by accident!
LMFAO OMG this Shit is getting funny guy's
$6,000 is the actual number..used for poker and stripper's
Gray hound bus to get to my destination then since I have $1,000 in credit I'll be getting a rental... looking to stay at the casino
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