FATF, FinCEN, and other authorities publish typology reports on virtual assets that list common red flags, from deposits structured below reporting thresholds to rapid movement through newly created addresses. Typology detection complements label-based screening because new criminal addresses have no labels yet.
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What is Typology?
A typology is a recognized pattern of financial crime that describes how a particular scheme moves or disguises funds, such as pig butchering, peel chains, address poisoning, or laundering through mixers. Regulators and investigators publish typologies so that monitoring rules, risk scoring, and analyst reviews can look for behavior, not only for known bad addresses.