Are you planning on doing something in the near or distant future that could potentially get your assets frozen, be it running a massive Ponzi scheme or waging genocide against a group of people? Here’s a pro-tip: spell your name at 100 different ways and they’ll never find you.
International banks, acting on government orders to freeze assets from Libya, Egypt and Tunisia, are scouring hundreds of millions of client files for individuals on the new watch lists. But in doing so, bank compliance officers are grappling with a peculiar challenge: the myriad ways of transliterating Arabic names…The pressure is high, with banks fearful of falling afoul of justice officials. “While [Arabic transliteration] has always been a concern, it’s become more of a challenge given recent events,” said Vasilios Chrisos, a top U.S.-based compliance officer at Australian bank Macquarie Group Ltd.
Compounding things, for individuals with Arabic names, sanctions lists provide only a few alternate spellings. The U.S. Treasury Department offers 12 possible spellings for Moammar Gadhafi, though language experts say there are more than 100 for the family name alone…Banks allow clients to transliterate their names as they see fit when they open new accounts. When a government publishes a new watch list, the banks’ software uses so-called fuzzy logic to search for alternative spellings, similar to how Google suggests alternative phrases when it detects a possible typo in a search.
[WSJ]
Mooamar is devious.
Mooamar is devious.
Mooamar is devious.
Mooamar is devious.
That was why I had accounts under different variatons of my name.
-Bernard “Bernie” Madoff
That was why I had accounts under different variatons of my name.
-Bernard “Bernie” Madoff
That was why I had accounts under different variatons of my name.
-Bernard “Bernie” Madoff
That was why I had accounts under different variatons of my name.
-Bernard “Bernie” Madoff
This is honestly how I kept my job for three years. HR can’t spell my name correctly so The Email of Doom never gets delivered.
This is honestly how I kept my job for three years. HR can’t spell my name correctly so The Email of Doom never gets delivered.
This is honestly how I kept my job for three years. HR can’t spell my name correctly so The Email of Doom never gets delivered.
And is causing udder chaos
And is causing udder chaos
I spell his name a-s-s-h-o-l-*
-Guy Who Doesn’t Know the Proper Place for an Asterisk
I spell his name a-s-s-h-o-l-*
-Guy Who Doesn’t Know the Proper Place for an Asterisk
I spell his name a-s-s-h-o-l-*
-Guy Who Doesn’t Know the Proper Place for an Asterisk
I spell his name a-s-s-h-o-l-*
-Guy Who Doesn’t Know the Proper Place for an Asterisk
Does this mean UBS doesn’t Suck?
Does this mean UBS doesn’t Suck?
Does this mean UBS doesn’t Suck?
Does this mean UBS doesn’t Suck?
Bess, any relation?
Bess, any relation?
Bess, any relation?
did you have paint for lunch?
did you have paint for lunch?
did you have paint for lunch?
did you have paint for lunch?
I should have used an Arabic name. My idea didn’t work out at all.
-’Ron Mexico’
I should have used an Arabic name. My idea didn’t work out at all.
-’Ron Mexico’
I should have used an Arabic name. My idea didn’t work out at all.
-’Ron Mexico’
I should have used an Arabic name. My idea didn’t work out at all.
-’Ron Mexico’
yay titties!
yay titties!
yay titties!
yay titties!
But he does look moo-velous in that purple ensemble
But he does look moo-velous in that purple ensemble
But he does look moo-velous in that purple ensemble
But he does look moo-velous in that purple ensemble
When we need to compile his accounts for our quarterly statement we always use ‘Gad*af*i’ as the search string.
- secret swiss bank who do *not* suck
When we need to compile his accounts for our quarterly statement we always use ‘Gad*af*i’ as the search string.
- secret swiss bank who do *not* suck
When we need to compile his accounts for our quarterly statement we always use ‘Gad*af*i’ as the search string.
- secret swiss bank who do *not* suck
“Hey – I want my outfit back”
“Hey – I want my outfit back”
“Hey – I want my outfit back”
“Hey – I want my outfit back”
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart. Not her wart, not her wart. I’m… I’m the wart. She’s my tumor. My… my growth. My… uh, my pimple. I’m Uncle Wart. Just old Buckwart Russell. That’s what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They’ll call me that. “Melanoma Head’s coming!” I’m s… uncle! Maisy Russell’s uncle!
Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, Sir!
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart. Not her wart, not her wart. I’m… I’m the wart. She’s my tumor. My… my growth. My… uh, my pimple. I’m Uncle Wart. Just old Buckwart Russell. That’s what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They’ll call me that. “Melanoma Head’s coming!” I’m s… uncle! Maisy Russell’s uncle!
Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, Sir!
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart. Not her wart, not her wart. I’m… I’m the wart. She’s my tumor. My… my growth. My… uh, my pimple. I’m Uncle Wart. Just old Buckwart Russell. That’s what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They’ll call me that. “Melanoma Head’s coming!” I’m s… uncle! Maisy Russell’s uncle!
Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, Sir!
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart. Not her wart, not her wart. I’m… I’m the wart. She’s my tumor. My… my growth. My… uh, my pimple. I’m Uncle Wart. Just old Buckwart Russell. That’s what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They’ll call me that. “Melanoma Head’s coming!” I’m s… uncle! Maisy Russell’s uncle!
Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, Sir!
He must be a BAD MOFO if he’s got one of those prison tattoo teardrops by his nose!
-AIG Quant
Why is there corn in my crap? I haven’t eaten corn in a week!
The correct spelling of his name is “Snoop Dog’s Father”
But a face only a mother could love.
- Lynn T.
We just use his actual name,
مُعَمَّر ٱلْقَذَّافِي
-secret swiss bank who *actually* doesn’t suck
Winner winner, Libyan Dinar.
oooff. That was bad
His clothes are way too loud.
-Walt Clyde Frazier
This is what Prince will look like in 20 years. Even the same outfit.