ACAMS Greater Buffalo Chapter May 2025 Event: Inside Pig Butchering Scams: Social Engineering and Financial Exploitation

Overview

Join us for a timely and eye-opening virtual session exploring one of the fastest-growing fraud typologies facing financial institutions and law enforcement: the Pig Butchering scam. Named for the manipulative process of “fattening up” victims before financially exploiting them, these schemes combine romance fraud, cryptocurrency investment fraud, and sophisticated social engineering to devastating effect. 

This session will feature expert insights from Homeland Security Investigations Supervisory Special Agent Jarrod Randle, who will walk attendees through real-life case examples, behavioural red flags, typologies, and evolving trends in this space. Learn how Fraudsters build trust, deploy fake trading platforms, and use money mules to move illicit funds—and how financial institutions can detect, report, and help disrupt these schemes. 

This is a must-attend for AML professionals, Fraud Investigators, and Compliance Officers seeking to stay ahead of a high-impact and rapidly evolving threat.