Erin West
- Founder and President, Operation Shamrock
- Scam Fighter
- International Keynote Speaker
- Disrupting Transnational Organized Crime
- Generating Awareness & Protecting Victims
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Erin West Speaker Biography
Erin West is the founder of Operation Shamrock, a global nonprofit uniting law enforcement, industry, and everyday citizens to disrupt the world’s fastest-growing form of transnational organized crime: pig butchering scams. After 26 years as a prosecutor—including eight on the REACT High-Tech Task Force where she became known for her relentless pursuit of crypto criminals—Erin now leads a cross-border fight to expose the scam economy, mobilize action, and protect both victims and the trafficked workers forced to run these schemes.
She is also the host of Stolen, a podcast that brings listeners inside the darkest corners of the scamdemic, where love is weaponized, billions are laundered, and real people pay the price. A sought-after speaker and educator, Erin continues to equip and inspire audiences around the world to use their skills, platforms, and tools to fight back.
The Scam Problem
Online scams are part of sophisticated programs managed by transnational organized crime groups.
Transnational organized crime has rooted in Southeast Asia and is quickly expanding its geographical footprint to other locations including Dubai. Compounds such as KK Park located in Myanmar (pictured above) house thousands of scammers who are laser-focused on stealing money from the rest of the world, often in the form of a fraud known as pig butchering.
The management is organized, sophisticated and operating on an industrial scale, often with the tacit agreement of the governments in which they operate.
Worse still, they are staffed largely by a human-trafficked workforce. Billions of dollars are being handed over household by household to bad actors. The human toll both to the trafficked victims and those who fell victim to the romance/investment scam is devastating.
Victims Services
The beating heart of Operation Shamrock, our Victims Services volunteers connect victims of scams with resources to assist, tell victims stories so we can learn from them, and empower scam survivors to join the fight against their scammers.
