Woman arrested in money laundering scam.
51-year-old Bobbie Jean, who requested through her attorney that her last name not be published, is a former accountant who had been unemployed for several months when she responded to an ad on CareerBuilder.com. When she was hired, she was told to collect payments from clients in the United States and wire the money to London.
Within weeks of her hiring, she was arrested at her local bank, charged with a felony, and is currently facing an August trial date in a Harris County, Texas court.
The other part of the scam took place on eBay, where the same con artists put up a motorcycle for sale, according to Bobbie Jean's attorney, Jeffrey Goldstein. The motorcycle was sold to a Florida resident for $9,000, and he shipped the money to Bobbie Jean in Texas. But there was no motorcycle -- the con artists were just using Bobbie Jean as a domestic address, so as not to raise the suspicion of the eBay buyer.
Hard to tell whether she is just dumb, or was duped by an elaborate scam.
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