Be careful, money laundering! – Fraudulent job offer

There are currently vacancies for “Back Office Employees” advertised on the “santo-vermoegen.com/infofolder” page. The job is also advertised on various job portals. The description of the activity is vague. It simply shows that you receive, log and forward payments in your personal bank account. Caution: This is money laundering, you are committing a criminal offense, warns our cooperation partner Watchlist Internet .

You work from home, have flexible working hours and opportunities for advancement. You don't even need a laptop for the advertised job. A smartphone is sufficient as a work device. The application process is straightforward and the only requirement is an Austrian or German bank account. One way or another, fraudulent jobs are advertised on different channels.

Activity: money laundering

Fraudulent job advertisements have one thing in common: they don't actually tell you what you need to do. This is the fraudulent job description on santo-vermoegen.com:

Your task is to receive and execute investment orders from our customers and to forward the assets acquired in this context to our asset management or directly to the customer. The executed order is then logged in your backend account.

New investment orders are assigned to you by our system, usually daily. You will be informed of every assignment of a customer transaction via SMS and can view all expected transactions in your backend panel.

So it seems to be about managing transactions for investment clients. But if you read on carefully, you will learn that the transactions are processed via the private bank account:

As a beginner, you will only be tasked with processing transfer category A for the first 4-6 weeks; the resulting payments will be received in your private account.

To do this, we will report your private account to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, or BaFin for short, as a so-called payment account of SANTO Vermögensverwaltung GmbH. The business risk therefore remains with us.

You involuntarily become a “money mule”

A money mule is a “money transport donkey”. As a money mule, you receive illegal money into your bank account and “transport” it. You will e.g. B. asked to transfer the money received to another bank account, to exchange it for foreign currency or Bitcoins. At some point - after countless transactions of these funds - it is no longer clear where the money originally came from. They helped “cleanse” it.

You are committing a criminal offense

Money laundering is a criminal offense! Even if you didn't know that your new job was money laundering. If your identity is revealed during an investigation, you must justify yourself and prove that you were only unknowingly involved in the criminals' money laundering activities.

I have already received money

• Stop contact and don't respond again.
• Report it to the police.

Recognize dubious jobs

• Low requirements but very good pay
• Vague description of the required activity
• For the actual activity, you must use your private bank account or open bank accounts as part of the activity
• Their job is to process “financial transactions” or carry out banking or investments for the company’s customers

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