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Can you be charged as a money mule if you didn't know?

Short answer

The US Justice Department defines money mules as people who receive and move money for someone else — and warns that moving money for people you don't know can lead to criminal charges, civil actions or prosecution.

A money mule is someone who receives money and moves it on for someone else — often criminals laundering the proceeds of fraud. The US Justice Department runs a Money Mule Initiative to stop them.

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Sources

  1. www.justice.gov/civil/consumer-protection-branch/money-mule-initiative
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