As our cooperation partner Watchlist-Internet currently reports, criminals are once again trying to get consumers to launder money under the guise of attractive job offers.

Attractive money laundering job offers? The Watchlist Internet recommends: Be sure to keep your distance, otherwise you will be liable to prosecution! On various job exchanges and classifieds portals, job seekers are currently coming across offers for freelance work at “TideBit Deutschland LTD”. The company does not exist in this form. Criminals misuse the name of a cryptocurrency company to trick applicants into money laundering. Anyone who completes the tasks may be committing a crime themselves.

Attractive job offers are currently being spread on the Internet looking for “freelance employees” who can work from home. If you come across one of these offers that require you to make your bank account available as an “order processing manager”, stop all contact immediately. Do not sign any contracts sent to you in this matter and do not provide any other personal information or identification documents.

The area of ​​responsibility is only hinted at in the contract, but not yet specified:

Screenshot Watchlist-Internet: An excerpt from the employment contract that leads to money laundering.
Screenshot Watchlist-Internet: An excerpt from the employment contract that leads to money laundering.

Money laundering

Of course, this is not openly communicated, but your job is to launder money from criminal activities. So they are used as a so-called “money mule”. In the further course you will be asked to name your bank account and to transfer incoming amounts to other accounts or in the form of Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies, for example via bitpanda. For this you can keep five percent of the respective amount.

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The money comes, for example, from various classified ad scams or from fake shops that do not deliver goods despite payment.

Money laundering is a criminal offense

The Criminal Code (StGB § 165) stipulates, among other things, that persons who knowingly acquire, store, invest, manage, convert, exploit or transfer assets to third parties through unlawful acts are to be punished. If you come into contact with such offers, you should immediately refrain from them and file a police report. This also applies if you have already made transfers.

Identification documents when applying

In order to apply for the fraudulent job offer, you will also be asked to send an identification document. We generally advise against sending such documents. If sending is unavoidable, we advise you to watermark copies of . This ensures that they are useless in the wrong hands.

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Source: Watchlist-Internet
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