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is this money laundering?
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or is this a form of money laundering? may not be, generally the amounts involved in money laundering are much higher. so if there are quite a few such transactions then yes it could be money laundering. it could also be for circumventing taxes, depending on country regulations one may try to do this to get around gift taxes etc. in this specific case it looks more of link harvesting / seo optimization. take a low cost item that is often searched and link to other product. if you see the company link on amazon; cougar takes you to shoes. so maybe on its own cougar shoes does not rank high, so link it with similar name brand in different segment and try to boost the link.
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