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Cifas, which aims at reducing financial crime in the UK, said that the number of “misuse of facility” frauds involving those under 21 years of age, has risen sharply.

From Gangs force thousands of teens to become 'money mules' | The Independent

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Payment Strategy Forum’s “Blueprint for the Future of UK Payments” (July 2017) says that “tactical solution work has been progressed to provide early benefit in the fight against financial crime in the detection of money mule accounts, and piloting methods for funds repatriation. The tactical solution was handed over in June, and implementation is expected by the end of 2017”. I’m not privy to the work of the Forum

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