A Stroll Down Victim Lane
Summary: A wrecking firm in Schenectady, N.Y. lost more than $70,000 in April when thieves raided its online bank account and transferred the money to 10 strangers across the United States, and the owner has recovered about one-third so far. The fraud surfaced when April Overton of Montgomery, Ala., who had spent over a month entering and faxing tax forms for a purported New Jersey firm called Tax World LLC, received a $4,700 deposit from Jackson Demolition Service and called the firm to question it.
Why it matters: The mule in this case was a job applicant answering an ad on Careerbuilder.com, and the site she worked for was registered in March 2010 through a Russian registrar while the state of New Jersey had no record of the business - the recruiting pipeline and the payment pipeline were the same operation.
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