Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, device, and system of detecting mule accounts and accounts used for money laundering
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Application No.: US17549931Application Date: 2021-12-14
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Publication No.: US11580553B2Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- Inventor: Itai Novick , Avi Turgeman
- Applicant: BIOCATCH LTD.
- Applicant Address: IL Tel Aviv
- Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
- Current Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Tel Aviv
- Agency: Browdy and Neimark, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G06Q20/40
- IPC: G06Q20/40 ; G06Q20/10

Abstract:
Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a bank account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the bank account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money, or is used for money laundering or terror funding. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different accounts, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other indicators.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220108319A1 Method, Device, and System of Detecting Mule Accounts and Accounts used for Money Laundering Public/Granted day:2022-04-07
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