Overseers of depository accounts noticed a lot moreshady-looking funnel account activity in 2014, according toFinCEN's latest annual review of Suspicious Activity Reportfilings.

The report, which examined more than three million SARs filed bycredit unions, banks, insurance companies, casinos, money servicesbusinesses and several other types of entities between March 1,2012, and Dec. 31, 2014, called the accounts “the standout trendfor 2014” among depository institutions and noted almost 10,000mentions of the activity in one category compared to just 123mentions in 2012 and 2013.

“Because of the clear and sustained rise in funnel accountactivity mentions from June 2014 on, we attribute this increase tofiler response to FinCEN Advisory FIN-2014-A00514 published on 28May of the same year,” FinCEN noted.