UK Police Warn Job Seekers to Avoid Being Money Mules

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) says websites are currently being used to recruit “money mules”. The “mules” are ordinary people who send and receive payments through their bank accounts to facilitate business. But in reality, the cash has been laundered from crime, leaving unwitting mules open to prosecution. Fraudsters are using a variety of bogus and legitimate recruitment channels to con job-hunters into thinking they have found genuine employment. Read the full article. [BBC]