Stolen: A Podcast with Erin West
Stolen is a weekly podcast that uncovers the hidden world of transnational digital crime. Join host Erin West — prosecutor, cybercrime investigator, global keynote speaker, and your guide into the dark corners of the internet.
Hear from law enforcement, cybersecurity experts, and the victims who’ve lived it. Erin will investigate the global rise of digital crime — scams, cyber cartels, and other forms of online exploitation — and the people caught in the crossfire. These are the voices behind the headlines and the crimes that cross borders and boundaries.
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Listen to previous episodes of Stolen
Scam Solutions: Educating Teens about Ethical AI
Episode 37: Erin talks to Adya, a high school student who is helping her peers learn about the risks of AI and how to use it ethically.
Sextortion Is Killing Kids: Inside the Scam Targeting Teens
Episode 33: Paul Raffile explains the fastest-growing, most dangerous scam targeting kids. He breaks down how it works, who’s behind it, why cases are rising, and what we must do now to stop it.
The Financial Sextortion of Teens
Episode 22: Scary stat — 1 in 3 American teenage boys has been targeted by sextortion schemes. Alison Jimenez joins Stolen to discuss the rapidly growing crisis targeting teenage boys.
Sextortion from Scam Compounds
Episode 17: IJM’s Eric Heintz joins Erin to talk about a groundbreaking study linking sextortion of minors to the same criminal networks running pig butchering scams and crypto fraud.