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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. Head bone not connected? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... ...
    The head bone connected to the neck bone,
    the neck bone connected to the back bone
    The back bone connected to the thigh bone
    the thigh bone connected to the knee bone
    the knee bone connected to the leg bone
    the leg bone connected to the foot bone
    Oh hear the word of the Lord

  2. 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.