A Job That Isn’t Hard to Get in a Pandemic: Swindlers’ Unwitting Helper Criminals are increasingly using people like Denise Newton to move their money, just as many have lost their jobs and are vulnerable. In total, online human resources schemes where criminals pose as potential employers have soared 295 percent from a year ago, while schemes used for money laundering have skyrocketed by 609 percent, according to the security firm ZeroFox. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/technology/money-mules-fraud-pandemic.html?action=click&module=Top+Stories&pgtype=Homepage