• 11/6/26

Pig Butchering Scams & Sextortion: Frontline Tactics for Banking

Should a bank block a payment it suspects is part of sextortion scam? Block it, every time.

Former prosecutor Erin West and cybercrime investigator Paul Raffile share what they learned investigating and tracking scammers in Nigeria. From there to the scam compounds of Southeast Asia, Erin shares insight about what fraud and AML teams can do about scams.

In this session:

  • How pig butchering and financial sextortion scammers find and manipulate victims

  • Tracking a sextortion scammer to Nigeria through a decoy profile

  • Red flags for sextortion payments, and why they slip under your thresholds

  • How to write SARs that investigators can connect

  • Why frontline staff and information sharing are working

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Investigating the Scam Cities in Myanmar