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Employment Scamming for Money Mules and Reshippers

There is a disturbing increase in employment scams lately, scammers are looking for Money Mules to either launder money or reship stolen goods.

Ryan Naraine published an excellent article on the subject at eweek.com:

“Online fraud depends on an offline component—people who launder money.The dramatic rise in phishing and identity theft attacks includes a well-organized offline component—the not-so-innocent “money mule” recruited by fraudsters to launder stolen money across the globe.”
….Read the rest here

January 19, 2008 Posted by gariell | Employment scams, Phishing spoofing, scam | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet