Combating Human Trafficking Using The Financial System (10/14/25)

Financial investigators and compliance teams are increasingly “following the money” to disrupt trafficking networks rather than only relying on victim testimony. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reports and NGO guidance show that traffickers leave traces in payments, payrolls, travel spending, prepaid cards, and layered transfers — patterns banks can detect with enhanced transaction monitoring and typology-driven red-flags. Public-interest groups and industry partnerships (for example Polaris and the Anti-Human-Trafficking Intelligence Initiative) are working with banks, card networks, and fintechs to turn those signals into actionable intelligence for law enforcement and victim services, using casework, data-sharing frameworks, and alerting pipelines so suspicious activity reports can lead to seizures or prosecutions


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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So today we have an article from Thecosterreporter dot net
and it's up in Canada. It's a Canadian Press article
rerun and it's about the Telltale Transactions to help with
human trafficking. So you know, the purchasing history of people,

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you know, buying in cash, buying phone cards, reloading disposable
credit cards, that kind of thing, and using those sorts
of transactions in specified areas where you know, these these
situations are a problem to find people who are engaging

(00:46):
in sex trafficking. So this is an article discussing that
a little bit, talking about how you can use those transactions,
service ads and the like to combat human trafficking sex trafficking,
and that's what the Canadians Financial Intelligence Agency is starting

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to do. So we're going to jump into this article
and we're gonna see what they have going on up
there in Canada as they fight back against sex trafficking.
Headline tell Tell Transactions help Financial Intelligence Center combat sex trafficking.

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This article was authored by the Canadian Press. Transactional clues
from hotel bills paid in cash to purchases of escort
service ads are helping Canada's Financial Intelligence Agency detect human
trafficking in the sex trade. And look, you got to
get creative, right if you're working as a law enforcement official,

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if you're working as somebody who is charged with stopping
human trafficking or bringing these people to justice, you have
to get creative. Because these dudes are going to be creative.
They're going to find ways to skirt the law. They're
going to find ways to make it look like they're
not engaging in human trafficking when they really are. And

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to all of these dudes out there that are, you know,
buying prostitutes on the street and engaging in you know,
solicitation and whatnot, remember that a lot of times, if
you're doing that, you're engaging with a human trafficking sex
trafficking victim. So try and keep that in mind. Man.

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All right, I don't understand how people don't get that.
It's all part of the cycle. Oh well, I was
just turning out. I was, you know, just going to
get some going to get to get laid, you know,
to pay some grow bro, go home, turn on your
computer and have a night to yourself. All right, enough, Now,

(02:55):
don't get me wrong. I'm not gonna sit here and
say I'm against all sex work, because I'm not if
people decide this is what they want to do with
their lives. A woman comes to Las Vegas and decide
she's gonna go up to Perump and work in the brothel, Hey,
that's on her. Who am I to tell somebody what
to do with their life, Just like I would never
tell somebody that they should get an abortion or shouldn't

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get an abortion. I'm not going to tell somebody what
to do with their life. That said, the people that
are doing it against their will, the women that are
doing this against their will, being basically put into modern
day slavery, they should not be forgotten about. They should
not be looked over because they have made some bad

(03:36):
choices in their lives. Oh, they're drug addicts. There are prostitutes,
so what they're human beings. Someone's daughter, that someone's sister,
that someone's mother, And who out there doesn't have a
family member or a good friend that has fallen off
the tracks. It's easy to judge, it's easy to talk
shit about people when you're in a position of comfort.

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But how many of us have had people fall off
the tracks? How many of us ourselves have fallen off
the tracks? But by the grace of God, have been
able to come back because you know, it's never about
how hard you can get hit, folks, Okay, it's about
how you get up after you get hit. So none
of these people are disposable. These girls, these women, there

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needs to be help. There needs to be infrastructure where
they can go and get that help if they want
to get out of this life. And there needs to
be a method where these human traffickers, these sex traffickers,
these pimps who keep these ladies in bondage by fear
and coercion, there needs to be a system where their

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penalties are severe. I don't know about you, but the
thought of keeping anyone in slavery or in bondage makes
me ill and is one of the very few things
that makes me want to go out and commit violence myself.
I mean, what is wrong with people? These are human beings, man,

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and these are let me tell you what, I'm not
even playing with you. These are the worst charges you
could possibly have if you go to jail. We talk
about it all the time with Epstein and Maxwell. And
you show up on the yard right the second you
show up, you're gonna have your bedroll, You're gonna walk
in and your people, your race, they're gonna check you.

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They're gonna walk up to you. There'll be like, look,
what's let's see your paperwork. And if your charge on
there is, you know, something to do with a minor
or rape or some in some on some yards pandering,
even you're getting gote, bro. And what they'll do is
they'll slice your face with a razor blade or a knife,
so you're marked. So everybody in the system knows you're

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a piece of shit. And that's how the system works
in America. And that's not hyperble, that's not me bullshit
and you that's a fact. So these tough guys out
here who think that they're cool pimping these women, they're
gonna be in for a big time reality check when
they get to prison. Because let me tell you what
those guys that are in prison, there's guys doing one

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hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty years that are
never gonna see their wives, their kids, their mothers again.
And you're out here beaten on yours, are molesting yours,
and shit, no way, bro, these guys aren't going to
take it. So when you hit the yard in America,
I'm not talking about Canada. I don't know about Canada.
When you hit the yard in America, at least out
here on the West Coast, it's rumble time, and especially

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if you've committed crimes against women and children. The Financial
Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada is now learning
from its sleuthing efforts in recent years to make pinpointing
traffickers a little easier. Fintrack identifies cash link to money
laundering by sifting through millions of pieces of information each

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year from banks, insurance companies, security dealers, money service businesses,
real estate brokers, casinos and others. So fintrack is their
version of finn Sin up in Canada, and that database
is used to go after people that are making funky
moves as far as money laundering, stash and cash, you know,

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all of Jeffrey Epstein's favorite e FN things. So that's
what fintrack does up in Canada, and they're in charge
of making sure that all of this stuff is being
done in a legal manner. And unfortunately, unfortunately, like the
fincin enfortument, here in America, it's lax. There's not too much,

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there's not enough to it right, there's not enough teeth,
there's not enough people, there's not enough money, there's not
enough technology, and the story goes on and on and on.
But here in Canada, they're making some different moves here
and they're trying to get creative. And like I said earlier,
you have to be creative when you're dealing with these people,
because you better damn well believe they're going to be creative.

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It says data received from these organizations has enabled it
to disclose nine hundred and seventy nine packets of intelligence
to police and other law enforcement agencies about suspected cases
of sex trafficking, almost all involving exploitation of young women,
in the last five years. Pretty sad, huh, Pretty sick too. Look,

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I don't have kids, folks, but I'm terrified for the
youth moving forward. This is such a prevalent problem and
it is so disgusting that more is not being done
about it that it legitimately makes me ill. I was

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just reading an article earlier today that due to the pandemic,
there's like one hundred and twenty million new people that
are going to be suffering from extreme averty worldwide, or
something like that. Some mind boggling number, one hundred and
twenty million people. I can't even imagine the suffering, the pain,

(09:15):
the absolute desperation in some of these communities. And then
these disgusting ass scumbag motherfuckers like Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Luke
Brunell swoop in while these people are out their worst
where they're the most vulnerable, and then they have all
of these offers of richness and you can be a model,

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and this that the other thing, and on and on
and on. And it didn't stop with Epstein and Brunel unfortunately, folks.
How often is this going on around the world right
now as we speak? The disclosures flowing from an initiative
dubbed Project Protect are helping fin track zero in and

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even more closely on signs of money dealings linked to
the crime. The project, a public private partnership initiative launched
in twenty sixteen, is led by the Bank of Montreal
and supported by fintrack and Canadian law enforcement. Fintrack is
using a new operational alert to banks and other reporting organizations,

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advising them to be on the lookout for certain kinds
of transactions now known to be associated with trafficking women
and girls. And again, this is a good thing, right.
Any tool that you can possibly use to try and
stop this and combat this, you have to use it.
If it's in the toolbox, it should be utilized. This

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is a very very very very big problem, and it's
only getting bigger. You would think that with all the
craziness and reflection on slavery, that people would be up
in arms about a modern day slave trader happening right
underneath their noses. But people aren't into it. I guess,

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I guess people don't understand the stakes. Never mind that
there's actually open air slave markets in Libya right now,
never mind that the goal is to save lives and
every single one matters, said Fintrack director Sarah Piquett. So
we really want this to succeed and continue to improve

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on strengthening the regime. The Federal Center analyzed about one
hundred thousand individual transactions contained in the intelligence disclosures to
police from twenty and eighteen to twenty twenty to Glean
trends the newly issued alerts. The newly issued alert says
the majority of the disclosures involved survivors providing sexual services

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from temporary locations such as hotels. However, sexual exploitation also
took place at businesses such as spas, massage parlors, and
private clubs that offered illicit services, as well as at
private residences such as apartments. So, look, this is all

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the typical places that you would expect this to occur, right, massage, joins, apartments,
you know, you name it. We've all seen the documentaries
on this kind of thing, We've all heard the stories,
and these people they will continue to do this. They

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will continue to sell human flesh literally until somebody or
some entity steps up to the plate and really enforces
the law. All used advertisements of escort services to obtain clients,
and some traffickers operated their own escort agencies. The alert

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says survivors were nearly all females, sixty percent were under
twenty five, and some were minors. The analysis found traffickers
were generally men twenty four to thirty six years old.
Female traffickers were between twenty seven and thirty two years old,
although most were also victims connected to male traffickers. You

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see that there's a lot of that that goes on
as well, Right, Girls that get caught up in human
trafficking themselves, and then you know, the whole thing gets
normalized and they think that this is just the way
to go about it, and they start recruiting other girls,
and you got Stockholm syndrome that sets in. And look,

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I am not a psychologist. I tell you guys this
all the time. I don't even make pretend that I
understand the human psyche. I don't even understand my own mind,
never mind somebody else's. But it is a very hard
cycle to break, there's no doubt about it. Traffickers who
exploited their victims out of private residences or an illicit

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store for businesses offering sexual service, however, were mostly females
over forty years old, and many operated with their spouses.
The alert says, and look, we saw that in the
Jeffrey Epstein case. Women are not immune, right, Women are
not immune. And according to the reports, it's roughly like
thirty nine percent of the people engaging in human trafficking

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are women. So you see a lot of times a
man and wife combo running one of these operations like
they're talking about here, out of like a massage parlor
or an apartment or something like that. Email money transfers
and cash deposits were the primary types of transactions, but

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fintrack also saw money laundering methods, including use of casinos,
virtual currencies, prepaid credit cards, gift cards, front companies owned
by traffickers or their associates, funds layered between related accounts
and investment accounts. Boy, it sure does sound like everything
Jeffrey Epstein was up to, doesn't it. And these people

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do the same thing, of course, not a much smaller scale,
But the results to the victims, to the survivors are
still the same. The pain, the suffering, the lifelong agony.
And where is everybody to stand up and say no more?
Where are all of these politicians demanding commissions like they

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are about January sixth, over eight duck dynasty guys and
nine rednecks. Where are all the meetings and the committee
hearings and the people going crazy about what's happening. It's
not gonna happen because the politicians don't give a fuck,
point blank period. I know a lot of you out
there are still caught up in your tribalism and huhah

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and your guys home, But folks, it's all bullshit. None
of them care if they did, they could change it.
Why haven't they. They're the ones who make the law.
Why haven't they fixed things. Analyzing transactions over time has
allowed fintrack to identify particular financial dealings often associated with

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trafficking tied to the sex trade, said Barry Macklop, the
agency's deputy director. We'll see things like pre approved credit
card charges which are then not actually followed through because
they'll end up paying cash at the end, but they
use their cards to reserve the rooms, for example. So
it's getting that specific. And that's an age old trick

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here in Las Vegas, especially, like I was talking about recently,
there's a road, a street called Boulder Highway, and it's
littered with these kind of hotels and with this kind
of behavior. I've seen it for years here in Las Vegas. Folks.
It's prevalent as fuck here in Las Vegas. And for

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the longest time I didn't even understand what I was seeing.
But now every time I see it, I just shake
my head. If I can recognize it, and I see it,
you mean to tell me the authorities here in Las
Vegas aren't hit. They are, they just don't have the
willpower to do anything about it, you know, sincity and all.

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Many sex traffickers were believed to be involved in other
illegal activities, such as drug trafficking or fraud, and were
a members or associates of criminal groups. The alert says
many traffickers use their victims to conduct other crimes. The
Center said indicators of suspicious transactions outlined in twenty sixteen
remain relevant, but it has added several others based on

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the latest research. It cautioned that on their own, these
indicators may not be indicative of money laundering or other
suspicious activity, and should be assessed in combination with what
organizations know about their client and other factors. Yeah be
used as another tool. Right, you have to have the
whole picture. You can't have half of the story and

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then write your book report. Right, you got to know
what's going on in the book, So you got to
know the whole entire profile. And when you put it
all together and you see a pattern, then it's easier
for you to figure out that this might be something
worth looking into. It is a constellation of factors that

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strengthen the determination of suspicion. The latest indicators include frequent
transfers to virtual currency exchangers, particularly if these funds were
sourced from incoming email money transfers from multiple individuals. So
if you've got a bunch of transactions going in and
out via crypto and you're on the radar for human trafficking,

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that might be something that signals the authorities to dig deeper.
Transfers to individuals or companies that advertise their virtual currency
services on escort website, so again looking for people involved
in the symbiotic relationship. Right, So you have an escort website,
and then on the escort website you have a crypto

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coinbase or whatever, and they'll look into all of that
and see if there is a symbiotic relationship. Frequent purchases
or payments to online gambling or casino platforms. Oh, I've
seen that one plenty of times. Like I said, I
used to run a sportsbook and we get all kinds

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of wild transactions in there. A female's reloadable prepaid credit
card being funded by reloads or transfers from a male,
usually the same one, and excessive payments to multiple telephone
or internet service providers. So there you go, folks. There
are a few more tools in another way that the

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Canadian authorities are looking to combat human trafficking and section trafficking.
Now will it work? I don't know. Look, I don't
have all of the answers I wish I did. My
job is to try and put a little bit of
a spotlight on these issues, right, and then we can
all work together to come up with answers, because that's
how things work correctly. That's how things work good when

(20:17):
we all work together and we're all firing off ideas
at each other and figuring out what's good and what's bad.
But we can't do that if the pitchforks and the
torches are always at each other's throats. Can we while
we're all fighting with each other over stupid ass, made
up issues. The rest of the world's turning folks and people,

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millions of them are suffering while we're engaging in our pedantic, stupid,
little petty arguments. Enough is enough time to shelf all
of that and focus our anger where it belongs on
scumbags like this and the disgusting bastards who help facilitate

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it in the financial sector. Because I don't know about you, guys,
but I've had enough enough of seeing stories like this.
Enough of all of these people being taken advantage of,
and I've certainly had enough of the scumbags doing it
not facing Justice'd like to contact me, you can do

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