Cyber scams, mules and the civil liability of banks in this type of crime
April 08 , 2022 // Specialty : Professional Liability: lawyers, doctors and other professionals
Published in Legal Today
Cyber scams are on the rise, in vogue: their rise and frequency is unstoppable. Like all human progress, technology has paved the way for new forms of crime that are very difficult to combat since, in the shadow of the Internet and the services of the information society, climates are created that favor anonymity and the relocation of criminals, who, with new, modern and subtle cloaks, defraud through IPs located abroad around the globe; This is, without a doubt, the perfect storm to commit crimes and evade the action of justice.
This scenario favors, surely, the irresponsibility of criminals, and therefore, the impunity of the acts they commit. As a result of the above, a huge number of criminals submerge themselves in this breeding ground, being perfectly aware that the victims, disheartened by the difficult tracking of the cyber-scammed money, will not raise their voices to defend their rights, to recover what has been been distracted by methods of deception channeled through the internet. At this point, it is essential to hire the legal services of lawyers specialized in the matter who know how to have a well-defined, skillful and capable strategy, above all, to recover the money that has been scammed. In the dynamics of cybercriminals, there is always a “mule”, that is how it is called in forensic jargon, in charge of receiving the scammed money in a bank account, and then quickly converting it into cash or transferring it abroad.
Therefore, in cyber scams, it is essential to locate the bank account receiving the stolen money and the owner of the same because, it will be from here, from where we can build a claim against the authors of the cyber scam, and possibly, against the entities financial statements in which the bank accounts that were used as an instrument of the cyber scams in question were located.
