money mule

You have just become a money mule by carrying the funds from one place to another.

That's why they ask - the money mules are the ones most likely to be caught.

In some ways it is similar to the money mule scam.

People who think they may be part of a money mule scam should contact their bank and the police.

They did not receive any payment for being "money mules".

The records were modified to list a money mule as one of the shareholders.

Some money mules are paid by a straightforward cut of the cash being handled.

"Some money mules know exactly what they are doing.

Some 19% of students who had been approached had agreed to become money mules.

They have to hire foreign money mules and people over there in their own countries to be intermediaries, as well.

Many of the U.S. money mules were recruited from overseas.

The criminal networks used so many money mules that full-time recruiters were needed.

The money mules set up shell bank accounts to receive the money.

The sole name on the construction company's account was that of one of the money mules.

The fraudulent transfers were sent in two batches to at least 20 different money mules around the nation.

Screen shot of fictitious company at the centre of a money mule scheme.

Paying it into the money mule's account disguises where it comes from.

"We're increasingly hearing about this money mule fraud from smaller community banks," Plesco said.

Contreras is something of an oddity as a US west coast money mule.

In actual fact they are helping to laudner money and could be open to charges of being a money mule.

According to the lawsuit, the funds were transferred in 74 separate transactions over a two-day period to 42 different money mules.

Others can host phishing or money mule recruiting websites.

"Work-at-home money mule schemes run by criminals have hired people to do this same thing," Ferguson said.

It also recruited innocent job-seekers as so-called money mules.