Top 10 Ways to Get Fired as a Money Mule
Summary: Krebs on Security describes money mules as recruits drawn in by work-at-home job offers who are asked for bank account and routing numbers, then told to withdraw incoming transfers in cash and wire them abroad via Western Union and Moneygram. Each mule is worth slightly less than $10,000 to the cyber gangs, who cut off contact once the money is wired and the pickup access number is emailed, and the post lists ten ways mules get fired, including giving a wrong routing number, which in several investigated cases first alerted the victim company to the fraud.
What's compelling: The mule is the visible end of a fraud chain worth just under $10,000 per recruit, and the reversal window is about 24 hours before the victim company or its bank flags the unauthorized transfers - a wrong routing number, not a control, is what surfaced the fraud in several cases.
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