Anything for Love: Romance Scams & Money Mules

An increasingly common facet of online romance scams impacting your members is the potential for luring them into unknowingly becoming money mules. By recruiting them through the guise of love, the scammers use stolen info and photos from hopeful romantics to disguise themselves and launder money through financial transactions. Money mules add layers of recipients to the money trail which complicates law enforcement’s ability to track the money from the victims to the fraudsters.