Yung's Guide to Laundering your Neopoints Safely
I am going to be outlining a few of the ways to launder your Neopoints and ETS items. If you have any other ways of laundering your Neopoints and would like me to add it to this guide just let me know and I will implement it.
STEP #.5 Outlined below is the RECOMMENDED method of transfer. If you're wanting to save some time in your personal life then just focus on this:
Strategy #.5 - Directly Transferring the Item
This method involves buying an ETS or VETS and then transferring the item immediately to the account you intend to receive it. It is not the safest method of transferring items but if both accounts look like legit main accounts then it is likely to arouse less suspicion.
(EDIT: May 19th, 2013 - Hidden Tower Items toss red flags upon transfer of accounts for your safety do not use these items, use Morphing Potions or NON-HT Paintbrushes.)
Post Script Note: I wrote this entire thing under the assumption that you have the common sense not to have multiple accounts on the same IP address. If you are using multiple accounts then they all need to be on their own IP's so that you don't get a massive IP chain freeze for having multiple accounts.It takes a little sensibility to be able to cheat and get away with it, so assuming you are cheating and needing to launder your Neopoints then you probably already have multiple accounts all safely running on independent IP addresses. No need to assume that I am telling you that all this is being done or should be done from one singular IP address as that lacks all common sense and will get all of your accounts iced fast.
We should all be fairly familiar with the terminology but just to clarify:
VETS = Very Easy to Sell
ETS = Easy to Sell
HTS = Hard to Sell
EHTS = Extremely Hard to Sell
TP = Trading Post
AH = Auction House
GS = Guild Shop
AB = Autobuyer
SW = Shop Wizard
SSW = Super Shop Wizard
Consolidating your Neopoints:
First and foremost you will want to convert your Neopoints into ETS or VETS items. Here is a quick list of the things that are good to use for quick conversion:
*Baby Paint Brush - 595k
Royal Paint Brush - 1.79mil
*Ghostkerbomb - 7.2mil
Kelpbeards Trident - 8mil
Anagram Sword (Sword of Reif or Sword of Ari) - 10.5mil
(Items marked with * are VETS)
After buying one of these ETS you can more safely move your Neopoints by gifting, trading, or auctioning to one of your other accounts.
Strategy #.1 - Shell Hopping
This is one of the easier and preferred methods of keeping your assets safe. It involves transferring your consolidated Neopoints and then gifting these from shell account to shell account. To make this method safer what you should do is gift the item that you are wanting to transfer to the receiving shell account. Wait 2-3 hours and then log on to that shell account as this makes it look less like you are transferring to yourself and more like you have given the item to a friend. Wait 2-4 days and then transfer the item again to another shell and using the same method just described you will at this point deposit into your safety deposit box on that shell. You can increase the amount of shells that you shell hop your ETS items through as well as increase the amount of final deposit box shells the accounts transfer to in the end.
Many who shell hop this way tend to try and keep less than 10mil per deposit account to reduce the loss if that account gets iced.
Strategy #.2 - Guild Laundering
This is my preferred method of laundering Neopoints. This is especially good for those of us who prefer keeping a "Swiss Account" which is a pool of our wealth in one location. The easiest way to do this is to be the owner of a guild and to keep complete sole control over the assets in the guild account. Many guilds have guild accounts that members can donate to which in turn benefits the guild, often times through purchasing Avatar Lend items. If you have 3-4 accounts that you AB from then you can have them join the guild and they can "donate" regularly to the guild account.
There are a few cons to this method. First off you have established a connection between your accounts which increases the risk of all of them being iced in the event of unsafe buy times. Secondly you will have to maintain activity in the guild and give back to the legit players you have in the guild. Buying some Avatar items like the Faerie Queen Doll or Chokato (TCG) are good ways to please the people. If you advertise the current guild funds to increase the participation within the guild then you may want to falsify what you advertise as being in the guild account as being less than what you actually have in there. If you have 250mil in the guild account the guild may grow suspicious if you suddenly spend 100mil+ on yourself, or buy selling Neopoints, instead of buying something like a MSPP (TCG). I normally only show 20% of what is actually in the guild funds. I give away many millions a month but I am increasing the amount that I have in my guild account by more than double what I give away. Usually I give away 2.5mil a month, which keeps my members very happy, and I normally add 10mil - 20mil a month through "generous donations." Another con to doing this method is that if the guild account gets iced then your guild members will be outraged and if your leader account is not iced you are going to have a very hard time explaining what happened.
Strategy #.3 - Trading Post/Auctions Pure Transfers
This is a more risky way of transferring your Neopoints in my opinion. Basically for the TP transferring of Neopoints you will set up a junk trade on the account that you are wanting to transfer the funds to. It is recommended not to transfer more than 700k per trade through this method as 800k for a junk item raises suspicion faster. The AH transfer method can work the same way which is much riskier because hundreds of people witness large amounts being transferred. You could send over an expensive ETS or VETS item to the account you are wanting to transfer the Neopoints to and have it auction off the item and you can transfer more safely through a one bid auction (Ex. 200k Initial and 200k increments for an item worth 400k).
Strategy #.4 - Store Buy Outs
This is a popular method in which you buy up everything from a shop that you are wanting to transfer funds to usually for a bit more than the current SW prices. It is not recommended to spend 10k-99k on a Glowing Jelly as this will often times raise a red flag unless the shop you are buying from is a guild donation shop. Buying a Brain Tree Stamp for 16k when the usual price is 12k that is not likely to raise a lot of suspicion.
EDIT: You can also sell super expensive items such as Anagram Swords, Draik Eggs, or High End PB's in your shop and buy them on the account that you are intending to transfer the item to as you can do this with multiple browsers running under different proxies. There IS risk involved using this method to your items as it can easily be snagged by someone else if you're not quick enough to buy it. While though unlikely this really isn't the most secure method for transferring items.
EDIT 2 (September 1st, 2012): This has been confirmed as one of the fastest ways to get your account red flagged and iced. I strongly recommend that you NEVER use this method.
Strategy #.5 - Directly Transferring the Item
This method involves buying an ETS or VETS and then transferring the item immediately to the account you intend to receive it. It is not the safest method of transferring items but if both accounts look like legit main accounts then it is likely to arouse less suspicion.
(EDIT: May 19th, 2013 - Hidden Tower Items toss red flags upon transfer of accounts for your safety do not use these items, use Morphing Potions or NON-HT Paintbrushes.)
Strategy #.6 - Shell Self-Icing Hopping
This method of laundering Neopoints involves using an account to buy items on and then once getting an item that is very valuable such as a Pirate Draik Morphing Potion, Glowing Cauldron, Snowbunny Stamp, ect... you then transfer the item and follow that with a quick self ice to the account using the Self-Ice Link (Official Neopets Link). After 6-8 weeks you file a ticket and request the account back and then repeat the process. This is a more heavily intensive strategy and risky for the account but it's been said many times that TNT isn't going to waste time investigating an iced account so if the account is investigated during that time then it will just be dismissed and you get your account back, presumably, afterwards.
Before employing this strategy I strongly recommend that you read over and follow carefully the Account Recovery Ticket Guide as this is going to really make a difference in you getting your account back through the reactivation process. Generally speaking, and in personal experience, you will always get your account back if document everything carefully.
After you get the account back just have it start buying for you again until you get another high end item, transfer the item, freeze and just repeat your process again with whatever account you have next in line.
This does require having a decent amount of accounts ready to use for buying items otherwise you will have long periods of doing nothing at all and wasting time you could be buying for higher end items.
Edited by Yung, 19 May 2013 - 08:39 AM.
