Human Trafficker

Human traffickers knowingly coerce or deceive minors into forced labor or sexual exploitation. They generate illicit proceeds by controlling victims, often collecting payments via cash or electronic transfers. These offenders manipulate financial channels to hide their role and the illicit origin of funds, creating challenges for financial institutions attempting to identify or monitor such transactions.

Human traffickers facilitate forced labor by:

• Coercing or deceiving individuals to work for minimal or no wages.
• Diverting these unpaid or underpaid wages into the financial system as purportedly legitimate income.
• Exploiting payroll channels or layered accounts to obscure the illicit origin of profits, making it difficult for financial institutions to detect suspicious flows.

Human traffickers use funnel accounts to:

• Maintain or coerce control over multiple accounts in different locales, directing victims or third parties to deposit proceeds.
• Withdraw or transfer funds quickly, fragmenting transaction records and frustrating investigations.

Human traffickers directly generate illicit proceeds from forced labor and sexual exploitation. They:

• Exploit victims under coercive conditions, profiting from forced services.
• Channel or conceal these proceeds within the financial system by layering transactions and fabricating corporate records.

Human traffickers provide forced labor for scam call centers by:

• Recruiting or detaining individuals under coercion to staff pig butchering operations.
• Exploiting victims of trafficking to execute fraudulent communications and investment solicitations.
• Enabling criminal enterprises to expand these scams through large-scale, captive workforces.

These criminals orchestrate or facilitate forced prostitution, child sexual exploitation, or other forms of sexual exploitation. They generate illicit proceeds that require laundering to obscure their origin. They may operate domestically or across borders, linking sexual exploitation with human trafficking networks, and exploit funnel accounts, anonymized payments, or structured transactions to evade detection by financial institutions. Their methods of controlling victims, such as violence and debt bondage, lead to illicit revenue streams that can appear legitimate through layering and integration.