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Erin West
Founder
Operation ShamrockACFCS · Four-week virtual series
Anti-Human Trafficking Awareness Series
Every Tuesday, January 5–26, 2027Live online
Seven expert-led webinars for National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, helping financial crime professionals recognize, investigate and disrupt trafficking and support survivors.
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The 2027 series is underway. See this month’s sessions below.
Free for ACFCS members. Opening session free to everyone.
Opening session, free to everyoneTuesday, Jan 5 · Keynote and welcome
January 5–26, 2027 · Live online
About the series
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness of human trafficking, strengthening prevention efforts and promoting collaboration across the public and private sectors. In recognition of this observance, ACFCS presents its third annual Anti-Human Trafficking Awareness Series throughout January 2027.
The series examines the evolving methods traffickers use to recruit, exploit and control victims, and the critical role financial institutions, law enforcement, nonprofit organizations, technology companies and financial crime professionals play in identifying suspicious activity, disrupting trafficking networks and supporting survivors.
Topics include
- Investigating and reporting suspected trafficking
- Forced criminality and scam compounds
- Labor trafficking indicators in financial activity
- Social media, cryptocurrency and digital payments
- Survivor-informed responses
- Laws, sanctions and financial intelligence
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Free for ACFCS members. Opening session free to everyone.
Opening session, free to everyoneKeynote and welcome, Tuesday, January 5
Every Tuesday in January
The series opens on January 5 with a session free to the whole financial crime community. On January 12, 19 and 26, ACFCS members join two in-depth sessions each Tuesday on emerging typologies, financial indicators, investigative strategies and reporting.
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- Live webinars
- 4
- Tuesdays in January
- 1
- Session free to all
- 6
- Members-only deep dives
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Who should attend
For anyone whose work can help stop trafficking
Human trafficking intersects with money laundering, fraud, cybercrime, cryptocurrency, organized crime and corruption, making it relevant across the ACFCS community. The series is designed for professionals whose work may help identify, investigate, report, prevent or disrupt it.
Experienced practitioners and those newer to anti-human trafficking work will both benefit from the expert perspectives, real-world examples and practical strategies throughout the series.
- AML, fraud, sanctions, cybercrime and financial crime compliance professionals
- Transaction-monitoring analysts, investigators and SAR/STR filers
- Banking, fintech, payments, cryptocurrency and money services business professionals
- Law enforcement, regulators, prosecutors and intelligence personnel
- Human trafficking task force members and victim-services professionals
- Nonprofit organizations, survivor advocates and community leaders
- Risk, legal, audit, security and corporate compliance professionals
- Technology, social media and online platform safety teams
- Educators, researchers, students and others learning about human trafficking and its financial indicators
Why attend
Turn awareness into action
Whether you work in compliance, banking, investigations, government, technology or victim services, you'll leave better prepared to identify potential exploitation, escalate concerns appropriately and contribute to coordinated efforts that protect victims.
See how traffickers exploit finance
Learn how trafficking networks misuse financial products and emerging technologies to recruit, control and profit from victims.
Recognize the warning signs
Spot the behavioral and transactional indicators that separate trafficking activity from ordinary customer behavior.
Strengthen investigations and reporting
Build investigations that hold up and reports that give law enforcement something they can act on.
Work better with partners
Collaborate more effectively with law enforcement, nonprofit organizations and other stakeholders working on the same cases.
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Choose how you'll join the series
Complimentary for ACFCS members. Not a member yet? Join today for access to all seven sessions.
Included
Already a member
ACFCS Members
Freewith your membership
- All 7 live sessions, January 5–26
- Earn CE credits
- Expert-led sessions with live Q&A
New to ACFCS
1 Year ACFCS Membership
$325per year
- Full access to every series session
- Earn CE credits
- 12 months of ACFCS membership
Government professionals
1 Year ACFCS Membership, Government
$245per year
- Full access to every series session
- Earn CE credits
- 12 months of ACFCS membership
Not ready to join? The opening session is free to everyone.Tuesday, January 5: keynote and welcome to the 2027 series.
Register freeRegistering a group? See the FAQ or contact our team.
January 5–26, 2027
The series at a glance
Seven live sessions across four Tuesdays. All times Eastern. Select a session to see the details.
5TuesdayJanuary 5
Opening dayOne session, free to the whole community
12TuesdayJanuary 12
19TuesdayJanuary 19
26TuesdayJanuary 26
Keynote and Welcome
The series opens with a keynote on the state of human trafficking today and the part financial crime professionals play in finding and disrupting it. Speaker to be announced.
From Alerts to Action: Investigating and Reporting Suspected Human Trafficking
How to take a trafficking-related alert from first review to a well-supported investigation and a clear, useful suspicious activity report.
Forced Criminality and Scam Compounds: When Trafficking Victims Are Made to Commit Financial Crime
How trafficking victims are coerced into running scams and other financial crimes, and what that means for detection, victim identification and reporting.
Detecting Labor Trafficking Through Financial Activity
The payment patterns, account behaviors and business indicators that can point to forced labor in supply chains and local businesses.
Trafficking in the Digital Age: Social Media, Cryptocurrency and Digital Payments
How traffickers recruit and advertise through social media, and how they move and hide proceeds with cryptocurrency and digital payments.
Building a Survivor-Informed Financial Crime Response
How to shape investigations, account decisions and customer contact so they support survivors instead of causing further harm.
Laws, Sanctions, and Financial Intelligence: Government Tools Against Human Trafficking
The legal authorities, sanctions programs and financial intelligence tools governments use to pursue traffickers and their networks.
Members register for sessions 02–07 by logging in to the ACFCS learning portal.
Speakers
Learn from leaders in the fight against trafficking
The 2027 series brings together advocates, investigators and law enforcement trainers from organizations working on the front lines of anti-trafficking efforts.
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Hollie Nadel
Director of Advocacy and Engagement
3Strands Global FoundationSpeakerBio
Joseph Scaramucci
Director of Law Enforcement Training and Operations
Skull GamesSpeakerBio
Kevin Metcalf
Vice President Law Enforcement Division
Whooster, Inc.SpeakerBio
Tami Brown Rodriguez
CEO
UntraffickedSpeakerBio
Youngbee Dale
CEO
Dale Consulting, LLC