Money-Laundering Scams
To launder “dirty†money, criminals try to take advantage of the most vulnerable segments of population. Just one of the ways of money-laundering via cyberspace is using Internet money laundering scams targeted at the unemployed.
When money launderers look for the gateway to move their stolen money and steal from their unwitting accomplices, they would visit sites dealing with job seeking and employment. Of course, job sites do their best to combat fraud in all and any form it appears. But, still, money launderers do sometimes succeed. What they often do is turning job seekers into criminals.
So, not only job sites, but also job seekers themselves should be careful not to become victims of money-laundering scams.
Money launderers often post jobs as if to recruit American citizens in order to transfer some money (whatever they may call this), because (again, as if) being foreign citizens, they cannot do it themselves. The scammers write that the applicant suits for the job and ask to provide them with job applicant’s personal bank account details in order to process whatever they call it. If victims cooperate with scammers, they use their personal bank accounts to move stolen or bad checks to earn some percentage and, accordingly, become criminals themselves.
So, job seekers should be careful not to cooperate with money launderers in their criminal activities in cyberspace.