unmarked bills
Anonymous payment demanded
Unmarked bills are paper currency without serial numbers recorded by law enforcement or banks, making the money untraceable.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in crime contexts—ransom demands, drug deals, bank robberies: The kidnappers demanded two million in unmarked bills.
Marked bills, by contrast, have recorded serial numbers that allow police to track where the money surfaces.
- cashReady spending funds
- cold hard cashPhysical currency, not credit
- ransomPayment for captive's release
- briefcasePortable document container
- kidnappingUnlawful seizure of person
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- anonymityanonymity, alias, pseudonym, incognito, hidden identity
unmarked billshot money
Rapidly moving speculative funds
wire transfer · electronic payment · check · bank transfer · digital payment
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