FBI: ‘Money mules’ a growing target in online fraud schemes

WASHINGTON --- The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn't until that night when the executive, hours after the money had been transferred and still puzzled by the out-of-the-blue demand, texted the owner to make sure he'd heard the request correctly. The befuddled reply was disheartening: "I just saw your message about a wire transfer today. What is that about?" It was all part of a fraud scam that targeted companies, schools and nonprofits in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States and that resulted this month...

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