Every financial crime leaves a money trail. This course walks through five real typologies from The Risk Café Files and shows you what to look for in customer activity, and what to do next.
- The Deadly Dollar: how fentanyl cash gets laundered, from funnel accounts to Chinese money laundering networks.
- Hawala: how informal value transfer works, when it is legal, and the red flags that matter.
- The Price of a Barrel: how shadow fleets move sanctioned oil, and how to screen vessels, documents and payments.
- The Long Con: pig butchering scams, crypto investment fraud and the money mules behind them.
- The Paper Trail: trade-based money laundering, from over-invoicing to the black market peso exchange.
Included: 5 video lessons with key takeaways, the episode files (MP4) for offline viewing and team training, and 4 printable red flags cheat sheets (PDF).
Built for: AML analysts, KYC teams, investigators, compliance officers, bank and MSB staff, and anyone studying for CAMS or similar certifications.
By Sola Olabode, CAMS, CRCMP, SafeSquare Consulting. General information, not legal advice.