Signs you have been targeted as a money mule:
You receive an unsolicited email or contact over social media promising easy money for little to no effort.
You are asked to open a bank account in your own name to receive and transfer money.
You are asked to receive funds in your bank account and then transfer funds via a wire transfer or electronic payment system.
You are offered a lucrative job, but the “employer” you communicate with uses web-based email (such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or Outlook).
Your online companion, whom you have never met in person, asks you to receive money and then forward the funds to someone you do not know.
If you believe you, or someone you know, has been solicited to be a money mule, please contact your local FBI field office. To report suspicious activity, please visit the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.
You can also find more information by visiting the FBI Money Mules information site.