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Money muling

Certain bogus firms hire the mules, and they ask them to withdraw and transfer funds for some basic commission. The fraudulent organisations' post adverts seeking young recruits offering huge earning opportunities to unsuspecting unemployed people.  

Most such deposits are made through unknown sources that are sent overseas to be used in criminal activities. 

The person who joins the firm may not know about the source of illegally obtained money, but since they have been part of the criminal offence, they can be prosecuted for accepting it into their accounts. 

How To Spot Risks?

  • If you have been offered a huge amount of salary for jobs with little work.

  • If the employer is based overseas and you do not know much about their business. 

  • In the UK, migrants, unemployed and foreigners are targeted by bogus firms besides students to draw them towards easy earning deals. They pick such individuals on social media, and many young men and women join them, approving them to transfer funds. 

  • Such accounts are often invisible and difficult to spot. Furthermore, banks have been gathering common risk factors like a high number of attempted transactions from multiple or overseas locations in one day or with a very high credit limit to spot such transactions. As a result, they have blocked many suspicious accounts. 

How To Protect Yourself?

  • No legitimate firm ever asks for using the bank account of the employee for holding funds. If the job description or role involves transferring such wealth from unknown sources, you should refuse it.

  • If the offers come from overseas and you could not find the legitimate work, it's an alert. If you suspect a fraud, report it to the regulatory authorities.

Date Published: Jan 28, 2022
A to Z Fraud
Type of Fraud
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Types of fraud

A-Z of fraud
To help understand which fraud you've been affected by, we've categorised them into an alphabetical list.

What is fraud and cyber crime?
Cybercrimes can be of two types. First, it can be cyber dependent, where the fraudsters use online devices to convince the victim to accept their offers.

Advance fee fraud
If you are trying to get a loan for a house or a car, they ask to meet the provider to get the financing arrangement and pay the finder's fee in advance.

Corporate fraud
Corporate frauds can be complicated, committed either by the firm or an individual. Nevertheless, it mostly involves cheating where the employee or the firm.

Individual fraud
There are many types of individual frauds related to advance fees, investments, insurance brokers, bogus tradespeople, Ponzi schemes, pension liberation.

Online fraud
Hence the number of cases of online fraud is increasing each year, and most such cases include – account takeover, direct frauds, or scams related domain names.

Identity fraud and identity theft
The criminal uses the stolen identity of another person living or deceased to conduct unlawful activities like obtaining goods or services in another's name.
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