Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offender Red Flags

On 25 Apr 2023, RedCompass Labs, News & Insights, published the latest in a series of articles and infographics on How to Follow the Money of a Human Trafficker (reference LinkedIn article, How to Follow the Money of a Human Trafficker, 27 Mar 2023, for a summary of previous articles in the series). The series provides samples of red flags discovered in banking financial crime for various scenarios of human trafficking.

Scenario #7001, 25 Apr 2023

🚩 Purchases on adult entertainment and/ or dating platforms

🚩 Registered Sex Offender

🚩 Frequent low-value payments to high-risk child sexual exploitation country

🚩 Payments to VPN and/ or privacy software providers

A full version of the RedFlag Accelerator Typologies is available to banks and other financial services firms who sign up via the RedCompass Labs website and are committed to collaborating, sharing their learnings and practical experiences of the typologies.

The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Online Child Exploitation and Child Sexual Abuse Materials document offers the following red flags:

🚩 Crypto payments made on a recurring basis to an address belonging to the

same entity (may indicate a possible subscription CSAM provider).

🚩 Wallet address is associated with other dark web illicit activity.

🚩 Use of separate email accounts to send or receive email money transfers.

🚩 Payments to online classified ad websites.

🚩 Purchases at youth-oriented live online chat rooms

An interesting overall resource is SmartSocial’s Ultimate Guide to Sextortion, Online Enticement, Teen Sex Trafficking, & Human Trafficking.