{"id":251908,"date":"2023-07-13T20:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251908"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:18:54","slug":"fifth-of-suspected-money-mule-cases-involve-under-21s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fifth-of-suspected-money-mule-cases-involve-under-21s\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth of suspected money mule cases involve under-21s\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Fifth of suspected money mule cases involve under-21s<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Independent on 11th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a report, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">young people under the age of 21 account for around one in five cases where money muling activity is suspected.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Money Muling?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Money muling is a type of money laundering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A money mule is a person who receives money from a third party in their bank account and transfers it to another one or takes it out in cash and gives it to someone else, obtaining a commission for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if money mules are not directly involved in the crimes that generate the money (cybercrime, payment and on-line fraud, drugs, human trafficking, etc.), they are accomplices as they launder the proceeds of such crimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply put, money mules help criminal syndicates to remain anonymous while moving funds around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFifth of suspected money mule cases involve under-21s\u201d published in Independent on 11th July 2023 What is the News? According to a report, young people under the age of 21 account for around one in five cases where money muling activity is suspected. What is Money Muling?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fifth-of-suspected-money-mule-cases-involve-under-21s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifth of suspected money mule cases involve under-21s\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[11840],"class_list":["post-251908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-independent","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}