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The disguising of criminal proceeds by routing them through legitimate-looking financial channels, a focus of fraud laws and enforcement.
In December 2024, KrebsOnSecurity reported analyst Richard Sanders's finding that all 122 cybercrime services he tested took payments through Cryptomus. The processor listed a Vancouver address, where a CTV and IJF count found at least 90 registrations.
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Oleg Korniev, a leader of Your Mule Cashout, pleaded guilty to money laundering for a ring that has used more than 15,000 US money mules since 2007. Stolen funds landed first in the mules' own US bank accounts, so banks saw the money long before prosecutors reached Korniev.
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Four Massachusetts men texted depositors scripts to get altered Treasury checks past nine lenders' fraud controls, prosecutors say, with $7 million in losses. The case tests whether ending paper Treasury checks would reach the part of the fraud that beat the counter.
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German and Brazilian police made seven arrests over a four-day raid on online banking accounts in November 2023. The BKA says the entry point was a supplier's flaw, and that supplier still has no name.
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INTERPOL's West Africa action identified 263 people and arrested 58. Argentina alone tied 196 of them to one network renting out domains and laundering, which is where the capacity lives.
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The Cape Town Zone of Black Axe ran romance and advance fee scams from 2011 until South African police made arrests in 2021, and the accounts prosecutors traced also carried business email compromise proceeds.
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Ronald Spektor, 23, was sentenced to four to 12 years for posing as a Coinbase representative and taking nearly $16 million from about 100 users. The victims moved the money themselves, into a wallet they were led to believe only they controlled.
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Bill No. 10190 passed on Sept. 16 with 313 votes and adds Criminal Code articles for creating, joining or recruiting into an electronic communications fraud organization. NABU detained a prosecutor's cyber chief twelve days earlier.
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Recorded Future's profile of a phishing and money-laundering vendor on the Dabai and Xinbi guarantee marketplaces documents at least 100 Telegram usernames and multiple virtual numbers bought via Fragment Market.
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The 4,100 coins left a Washington wallet after two callers talked their way into the holder's Google Drive, and the arrests followed an exchange signup made from a home IP plus a month of spending loud enough to advertise itself.
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Cardiff and UWE academics pulled five years of arrest records from 36 forces in England and Wales, where the age pattern is firm, while the warning about international students recruited as mules comes from officer interviews rather than counted cases.
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