Help Kickstart a Film on Cybercrime
Summary: Security journalist Brian Krebs recounts a 2011 road trip from Austin to coastal Texas with filmmaker Charles Koppelman and a camera crew to film a money mule for a documentary called Zero Day. The gang they were tracking was grooming between 75 and 100 mules across the country on any given day, and the trip narrowed to one mule, Geridana, a single mother in Webster, Texas, who had processed four transfers of $9,000 or more in as many weeks without ever being paid.
Key Takeaway: The mule at the center of the film processed four fraudulent transfers in four weeks and received none of her promised salary, a reminder that the recruitment networks behind business email compromise treat their own couriers as disposable.
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