Videos about Frauds and Scams
Watch news reports, educational clips, and presentations about the scam industry and how to protect yourself and your community.
Watch news reports, educational clips, and presentations about the scam industry and how to protect yourself and your community.
Sumsub | Who is targeting our kids, befriending them, flirting with them, and then extorting them? Sumsub follows Erin West to Nigeria to find out — and confront the scammers.
Romance Scam Rebellion: Host Anola Johnson and Erin West dig into the multibillion-dollar global industry of romance scams, crypto fraud, and transnational fraud.
Sumsub | Erin West explains why she says we’re under attack by the scam industry. In the familiar Cambodian cities, the lights are off in the compounds. But at the end of dirt roads, compounds are not just existing, they’re flourishing at a massive scale.
Sumsub | Erin investigates the heart of the scam industry. She explores scam compounds, finds new ones, and hears from a trafficked victim firsthand.
There is no warrant for your arrest. Law enforcement doesn't contact you to tell you they're on their way. If they had a warrant, they'd just show up.
“Uncovering the Dark World of Nation State Scams” Erin West presents the keynote at “SANS Security Awareness Summit: Advancing Security Culture 2025.”
See where human trafficking victims were forced to scam people for millions. Just blocks from the U.S. Embassy, West sees where victims worked as well as the luxuries their captors enjoyed.
Crypto exchanges allow you to convert traditional money into digital currencies. Like banks, they allow you to store funds and make payments. Unlike bank deposits, crypto funds are not federally insured.
John Oliver discusses a popular internet scam and why it’s easier to fall for it than you might think. (NSFW language)
Investor.gov | Have you received a message from someone you don’t know? An unsolicited job offer, a wrong number, or an unknown DM. Be wary: It could be a scammer.
United Nations | The scammer is a victim, too. See how organized criminals engage in large-scale human trafficking to run scams in a tour of a scam farm raided by law enforcement.
Learn about the financial and emotional toll of pig butchering scams — and how groups like REACT are fighting back.