Gangs recruit schoolchildren to move the proceeds of crime through their own accounts Police Scotland has written to secondary schools across the country warning parents and teachers that criminal gangs are targeting teenagers to act as “money mules”,as a senior officer warned youngsters are increasingly recruited online to move the proceeds of fraud through their own bank accounts.
Recent inquiries into “vishing” fraud in Scotland where individuals are tricked into revealing financial information over the phone – own revealed that organised crime groups are targeting schoolchildren to work as mules, a form of money laundering that can carry a 14-year prison sentence but which young people often effect not realise is illegal.
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Source: theguardian.com