Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Beware of cyber jobs offering easy money

Beware of people offering commissions for monetary transactions from your bank account. They could be acting on behalf of a terrorist organization and using you as a 'money mule'. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has alerted banks and customers about transactions through dormant accounts since this could be a case of the account holder being used as a "money mule" for laundering. "Of late, it has been brought to our notice that money mules can be used to launder the proceeds of fraud by criminals who gain illegal access to deposit accounts by recruiting third parties," said an RBI official. "The third parties may be innocent or they could be complicit in the crimes."

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