Would You Rather Be A Mule?

How many of you out there have seen job offers [both part time and full time positions] that look like the following screenshots:

Feeling charitable or are you a budding humanitarian? Try these ones:

[Donation Europe]



[Leap Forward International Donation Association]



Or are you just looking to make some cash, whatever it takes? Try these ones:

[TRI-VISION GLOBAL INC]



[Aegic Capital Group LLC]



Tempted to apply?

Well, let's see where we end up if we click on the web link in the e-mail from Aegis:





Looks very professional doesn't it? All of these all seem too good to be true, don't they?

Well, they are too-good-to-be -true, all the screenshots of the e-mails [including the 'charity' ones] are nothing more than an attempt to recruit staff to act as money launderers, also known as mules.

I've written about mules before on this blog, but I though it was time to revisit the area as the bad guys and girls have been very active in trying to recruit new mules just recently.

So, a quick recap

"We are not talking about four legged creatures that are half horse and half donkey….think more of drug couriers who are more usually referred to as Mules!

Now, in most cases Mules are those that either carry things for others [hence the use of the term] or act as laundering points, such as in organized crime syndicates, they do the dirty work of moving material from A to B and usually have little or no idea hat what they are doing is illegal. They may even be acting as a Mule under duress, such as blackmail, etc."

So next time you see a job ad on the web, in the local paper or receive a job offer via e-mail, stop and think is this really legit, or am I about to be turned into a mule, or as the song goes:

"Would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams home in a jar
and be better off than you are
or would you rather be a mule

A mule is an animal with long funny ears
he kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny but his brain is weak
he's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
and by the way if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule..."

The full lyrics can be found here.

By all means swing on a star, but not if it means you grow up to be a mule...to fund the lifestyle, and end up broken, saddled with a criminal record, and end up corralled in jail with numerous other mules, while those that run the scams get away with turning the endless train of desperate people [including students]into yet more mules.