 Commonly, mules are recruited with job advertisements for "payment processing agents", "money transfer agents", "local processors", and other similar titles; the real benefit to the criminals is not the work carried out by the mule, but that the criminals are distanced from the risky, visible transfer.Some money mules are recruited by an attractive member of the opposite sex.After deducting a relatively small payment for themselves, candidates are asked to accept funds and to forward them to a third party, which they can do from home.