Coronavirus Widens the Money Mule Pool
Summary: A fraudulent site called the Vasty Health Care Foundation, registered weeks before the article, copied nearly all its content from the legitimate charity GlobalGiving and recruited money mules through job postings on Indeed.com and Monster.com. Recruits were sent on bogus pharmacy errands, then asked to deposit up to 3,000 CAD of stolen funds, keep 150 CAD, and convert the rest to Bitcoin at an ATM using an emailed QR code.
Bottom line: Hold Security intercepted the same scam templates aimed at U.S. job seekers, and mule vendors on a Russian-language crime forum were openly advertising that their drops were still working despite the pandemic. The mules themselves face police scrutiny and bank demands to repay the stolen funds.
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