The Money Mule

Criminals who need to move money around will offer up jobs on craig's list, saying something like an international finance company needs assistance writing letters. They ask the victim, if we send money to you, could you then send the check to the client? And if they agree, a money mule is born. Michael had his personal information stolen in the anthem breach. The ir s noticed this blog post and eventually refunded the money back to him. But this took months. In two thousand 15 many more people were having the same issue, thousands of others. So the i r s began looking into it. A lot of them were using the same exact emal address, hundreds