Vietnamese cadremen periodically contact people living in Vietnam and encourage them to write to their relatives to request money. To transfer the money. a network of underground currency collection centers have been established in the United States. In response to these orchestrated appeals. Vietnamese refugees have taken U.S. currency to the centers. The U.S. currency is consolidated at periodic intervals and then smuggled out of the United States to the State Bank of Vietnam. The intended recipients are given a very small amount of Vietnamese currency which is immediately subject to regressive taxation or outright confiscation. In many American cities. there are sizeable Vietnamese communities which are vulnerable to these appeals.
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