‘Money Mules’: FBI warns you could be part of widespread money laundering scheme without even knowing it

Fraud
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that night when the executive, hours after …