Last Year on the Green · May: The Job That Paid Too Well
The idea: a job that pays you for the use of your bank account is not a job; it is someone else's crime with your name on it.
Read it
Who is in this book
- Redline Never sign anything unread, and tell a real trap from an ordinary term from ClauseDojo
- Verify Before you defend or share something, stop and trace it back to where it first appeared from NewsForge
- Danya a child of the Green Asks "how do we know?"
- Yusuf Gross pay is what you earn; net pay is what you get; read every line in between from LedgerQuest
- Devon Every yes costs the next-best thing you could have done with that time or money from LedgerQuest
- Tara a child of the Green Listens longest, speaks last
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts of this story are true, stretched or made up?
True
- A money mule is a person who moves money for someone else, often money that was stolen or gained from crime, through their own bank account, keeping a small part for their trouble. Mules are often recruited online with what looks like an ordinary job offer. Source
- Money laundering is hiding where money obtained from crime came from, so that it looks as if it came from somewhere ordinary. Passing such money through your own account is a way of doing it, even if you did not take the money yourself. Source
- In the case, £2,000 in and £1,700 out leaves £300; £300 for ten minutes is £1,800 an hour; £300 is about two and a third months of £127.50.
Stretched
- In the case, the danger is described as losing your bank account and your good name. What we simplified: What happens to a money mule depends on the country and the case. Banks can close the account, and the police can treat it as a crime, even when the person did not know where the money came from. If you have been asked, or have already done it, telling your bank and a trusted adult straight away is the safest step.
Made up
- Jordan and his messages, Zane, Tara's mum, and the three classmates are made up. Money mules, and the way they are recruited, are real.
Tara’s sentence
The case stops where Tara speaks. Write the sentence you would have said. It stays on this device.
Kept.
Your sentence lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.