Money Mules: What you can do

If a story sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t respond in any way and never give your account number to people you do not know.

Here are some tips for recognising efforts to recruit money mules:

• You receive an email offering you a good job in an international company; you are promised an excellent reward for only a few hours work a month.
• You receive an email from a seemingly reliable job site, charitable institution, good friend or internet boyfriend/girlfriend asking you to forward an amount that is to be paid into your account shortly.
• Two days after selling an expensive camera on an auction site, you receive an email from the buyer. He has transferred the amount twice by mistake and asks you to pay the excess amount into a different account from the original account.
• Poorly worded emails or letters.
• The email or letter is not directed to you personally.

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