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The Anatomy of Money-Mule Scams

Posted by kdawson on from the if-it-sound-too-good-to-be-true dept.

Brian Krebs of the Washington Post's Security Fix blog has up an article on work-at-home money mule scams (backgrounder blog post here). These operations offer victims hundreds or thousands of dollars per week for moving money through their own accounts — a critical piece of the infrastructure for profiting from identity theft and phishing. The article links to the site of a UK fraud fighter named Bob Harrison, who lists hundreds of fradulent money-mule operations.

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  1. Yet another enticement scheme by cjonslashdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is an example of an enticement scheme. There is a full taxonomy of schemes in chapter 5 of my book High-Assurance Design. The chapter can be downloaded from http://assuredbydesign.com/haa/chs/Berg_ch05.pdf.