"These 'mule' accounts are a vital link for crooks moving money around the banking system." Indeed. A vast majority of digital financial crimes in some way re

"These 'mule' accounts are a vital link for crooks moving money around the banking system." Indeed. A vast majority of digital financial crimes in some way rely upon these types of accounts. I really don't understand why I haven't heard of any of these people who sell their accounts to criminals being charged as accessories (before the fact). Perhaps because enforcement is low in general. But I think that a lot of the alleged college students doing this wouldn't risk ruining their future on felony fraud charges for $200 if we started prosecuting some of these people. The mere fact that not all of the money was routed back out and some remained as payment is essentially the smoking gun that they were knowingly involved. Any decent investigator/detective would be able to break these students in 15 minutes once presented with that evidence.