Exposing Online Scammers with Erin West

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Financial Crime Matters | ACAMS Chief Analyst Kieran Beer interviews Operation Shamrock Founder Erin West about online scams, fraud, and related crimes that often rely on forced labor.

Erin and Kieran discuss her virtual and on-the-ground pursuit of the people and transnational organizations that perpetrate fraud, including exposing scam compounds in Cambodia and Myanmar, confronting Yahoo Boy sextortionists in Nigeria, and, just recently, identifying the trend of Chinese companies buying farmland in Oklahoma to run marijuana farms using forced labor.

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Exposing Online Scammers with Erin West
Exposing Online Scammers with Erin West

Financial Crime Matters | ACAMS Chief Analyst Kieran Beer interviews Operation Shamrock Founder Erin West about online scams, fraud, and related crimes that often rely on forced labor.

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2026 Trafficking in Persons Report: Summary
2026 Trafficking in Persons Report: Summary

U.S. Department of State | The State Department has released the 2026 Trafficking in Persons report. The report includes a section focused on the use of trafficking victims as forced labor to commit financial scams against Americans.

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2026 BioCatch Global Scams Report
2026 BioCatch Global Scams Report

BioCatch | Based on data from more than 370 financial institutions, the 2026 Global Scams report focuses on the elements behind the continued growth of the scam industry.

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Scammed: A PBS Frontline Documentary
Scammed: A PBS Frontline Documentary

PBS | Scammed, a new Frontline documentary examines the global criminal industry built on scams and fraud, the people and technology that enable it, and the efforts to shut it down.

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The Fraud Economy Has a Supply Chain; Erin West Is Going After It
The Fraud Economy Has a Supply Chain; Erin West Is Going After It

PYMNTS | Scammers will take as much as they can. As Erin West tells CEO Karen Webster, “Whether it’s $4.5 million or $450,000 or $45,000, the scammer is going to take every penny that you have.”

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Mapping Global Expansion of Chinese-speaking Scam Syndicates, 2010–2026
Mapping Global Expansion of Chinese-speaking Scam Syndicates, 2010–2026

Humanity Research Consultancy | A chronological overview of Chinese-speaking scam syndicates exposes the transformation and geographic reach of their operations since 2010.

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