advice needed pls i think my friend is a money mule should i report it?

PHYTHIAN

vaio wrote: »

I thought these were straight scams, they send you a forged/stolen cheque/draft, you send 90% of it on in cash via Western Union.

When when your bank realises the cheque/draft was forged/stolen they recover the money from your account

Vaio ( and later terryw) are spot on.
The money 'paid into' your account will be by a bounced cheque/phoney transfer.

You also say the BF used your friends account as well as those of other 'friends'. I would tell your friend to expect a BIG problem with her bank and the BF to expect problems with the other 'friends' he has used.

belfastgirl23

This scam was featured on BBC breakfast a few weeks ago! I think your money mule is going to come out of it the worse!

nzmegs

If the boyfriend is using your friends bank account too then she will lose money as well. She will be expected to pay it back and something tells me she can't afford that. you need to tell he now and make sh=ure she refuses to cash any more "cheques".

Proc

Hahahahahaha.


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If you really don't like this guy, the best thing that you can do is to not report it, or even alert her. Every time this gullible numpty cashes another dodgy cheque, he's getting himself further and further into trouble.

There are 2 possible scenarios to this:

a) He's cashing dodgy/stolen cheques, and the Chinks are getting 90% of it. He's soon going to have to explain why all of these forged cheques are going into his account. What's he going to say? "Oh, I thought that I was just money laundering".

b) The cheques (or cash) aren't stolen/dodgy but he's acting as a front for money laundering. His accounts are probably already being monitored, and when/if his accounts become frozen (probably straight after he's deposited a large wad of cash) he's going to have to explain the the Chinks why they've deposited money into his account and he hasn't paid them. I doubt these types of people are the sort that will just say "Okay, no problem".

Sooner or later, he's f*cked.

nzmegs

Chinks? I thought that particular word went out with the seventies?

cathya_2

hob wrote: »

long story but ill try to simple my freinds boyfriend(i dont even like the guy) got a new 'job' where he would get money paid in to his account he then takes it out and keeps 10% and ships off the rest to china.thought this was odd as he has a crimmnal record , was fired from stealing from his last employer and has no qualifactions and umm yeah its just to good to be true. for very little work he gets a lot of money. so i thought hmmmm wouldnt the company just transfer it to china as easly as he can? so i jumped on google and after about 2 seconds of looking online found things like WARNING FRAUD, money mule fake job scam. any way due to problems with his acount he 'transfued ' the money to her acount and a few mates and then withdrew the cash...any way i fell that this is defently gonna get them in some kinda mess. i sent him a email with all the info that i found on google but they just ingored me. im really worried....wondering what to do now. maybe report it? if it gose on longer then it will be worse right? or should i just leve it ? im not so worried about him its her and her 2 year old im worried about.

What is the name of this company he is working for? I think my friend is involved in the same thing and I am worried.

ecgirl07

nzmegs wrote: »

Chinks? I thought that particular word went out with the seventies?

Thought that myself!

Primrose

If I had a "friend" who was allowing her bank account to be used for something that she was notified was a criminal activity, I'd drop all contact pretty quickly, I'm afraid. As an honest person myself I wouldn't want to be associated with crooks. If she hasn't got the common sense to disassociate herself from this guy, that's her look-out. I'd just want to be very far from the scene when everything unravels as it undoubtedly will sooner or later.

Wickedkitten

Who needs the police when you have google

hob

Wickedkitten wrote: »

Who needs the police when you have google

love that
just incase u guys wonderd what happedn the banks froze there acounts and the police are now invloved. im not sure what the company is called sorry. he keeps saying he didnt know what he was doing but i highly doubt it.the more i hear about it the more i wanna smack him. did i mention she works in a bank so she will problably be fired.