Being that the majority of us spend our working hours “on the net”, discussion of cyber crime is certainly of benefit to us all.

As Deena Monroe, a Statesville, N.C., single mom found out, listing her resume on job search site Careerbuilder.com resulted in untenable consequences. As reported in the washingtonpost.com web site, Ms. Monroe was offered to make a few hundred dollars a week completing sales for a marketing company based in Australia.

After researching the company and concluded it was a legitimate firm, in mid-September of 2007, Monroe decided to participate in the offer. She was asked to add an e-mail address to her account at PayPal, which the company rep explained that she needed to transfer money on the company’s behalf.

As a result, Monroe was the victim of a money mule scam in which criminals make use of third parties to launder stolen funds.

The article concludes in attempting to suggest the extent to which schemes such as this exist on the Internet. The scams are becoming more sophisticated; however, the basic rules of common sense and online security have not changed.

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