Technique
technique:money_mule
Also: money mule scam, money mules, money muling
Use of recruited intermediaries to receive fraud proceeds and transfer them elsewhere, often without understanding the criminal scheme.
Use of recruited intermediaries to receive fraud proceeds and transfer them elsewhere, often without understanding the criminal scheme.
“Oh yeah, the old money mule scam.”
“If they agree, a money mule is born.”
Use of intermediaries recruited through deceptive job advertisements to receive and forward stolen funds.
“The answer to that is money mules.”
“The hackers behind ZeuS needed to find people willing to act as go-betweens”
Recruiting former victims to receive and forward payments through their bank accounts while retaining a percentage.
“now they’re converting the victims into money mules?”
“Web payments would go through them and they could keep some of it.”
Use of intermediaries to receive, retain, and forward stolen funds.
“the criminals hired someone else to collect that money”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | INVOLVES | IRS Get Transcript breach | Explicit | 26 |
| incoming | USES | Axact | Explicit | 142 |
| incoming | USES | Bayrob | Explicit | 175 |
IRS Get Transcript breach INVOLVES Money mule
The fraud operation involved networks of money mules used to receive and transfer stolen tax refunds.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“Then they had to set up a whole network of money mules”
Axact USES Money mule
Axact sometimes recruited scam victims to route web payments through their accounts while keeping a portion.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Fazal EP 142 Details
“set up a deal with that person to funnel the money through them”
Bayrob USES Money mule
Bayrob’s operators used money mules to receive victims’ payments and forward the money through additional intermediaries.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 175 Details
“the criminals hired someone else to collect that money, keep a portion of it, and then forward the rest”