The caddish Brando takes the romance approach while Niven poses as a prince to earn reel her in - in a cruel competition to  swindle her family soap fortune. 

If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because the film was remade in 1988 as the hugely popular Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine. Since then the characters have found their way to the broadway stage in 2004 and were reworked in 2019 again for film - with the fraudsters played by women this time around.

So it’s clear that this take on confidence men (and women) is tale as old as time - and one that continues to be rewritten to this day. And while the tricks of the trade might not change the tools most certainly do. 

So today we’re hearing from Jim Lee, the Global Head of Capacity Building at the blockchain analytics and investigation firm Chainalysis about how the playbook has changed and what the future of scamming might look like.

Plus, a recent report by UK Finance showed that increasingly elaborate investment scams involving gold, cryptocurrencies and wine have soared in the past year with more than £220m lost to the fraud. 

And while that may sound like the storyline for one of the Hollywood movies we’ve just been discussing - the reality is a lot more mundane. 

Kathryn Westmore is UK Finance’s Director of Financial Crime and Interim Director of Fraud Policy. She spoke to Collared about the rise in online fraud, UK’s fraud victim compensation scheme and why social media companies might be asked to step up

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“Wanted: Money Spark is seeking a Financial Transaction Control Analyst to join their exciting technology start-up company.

Key roles and responsibilities will include receiving and processing of incoming cash funds and transferring of funds to accounts indicated by our managers.

We offer; speedy career progression, training specific to the role, performance related bonuses, flexible hours and a work from home culture."

If this sounds like a job you might be interested in applying for - you’re not alone. When Santander published this fake job advert as an experiment in 2018, they were looking to gauge how likely Britons were to apply for a job as a money mule. But with more and more jurisdictions taking a hard line on this type of criminality - they might be in for a rude awakening if they did. We hear who the likely candidates are, what the job entails and what the consequences are for getting caught? 

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But all too often the victims are hidden, faceless or hard to perceive which is why why CEO Andrew Wallis (OBE) called his charitable organisation Unseen when he first set out to tackle the problem in the UK nearly 20 years ago. He'll help us unpack what forms modern slavery takes, who the people most vulnerable to being exploited in this way are and who's doing the exploiting.

In addition we take a look at another financial crime with very human victims - some of them not immediately obvious. One area which creates a huge amount of human collateral is the world of scams. Perhaps you’ve fallen victim to one or you’ve simply stopped answering unknown callers because of how prevalent they are, but did you know that the person making those calls might also be a victim themselves? Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent with AML Intelligence, takes us through the growing problem of scam factories.

For more information on the work of Andrew and his team at Unseen UK, visit www.unseenuk.org

Host: Dee Reddy

Guests: Paul O'Donoghue (AML Intelligence) and Andrew Wallis (Unseen UK)

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It’s no surprise then that the sport sometimes referred to as “the beautiful game” can attract an ugly underbelly. So has the evolution of football in Europe left it vulnerable to bad actors and what will new AML regulations mean for agents and clubs?

Plus, as the World Cup kicks off this week across Canada, Mexico and the USA, AML Intelligence’s Paul O’Donoghue explains why events at this scale are so attractive to criminals looking to defraud fans, traffic victims or move dirty money across borders…

So what are the main financial crime risks presented by a global event like this?

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Europol is the intelligence agency based in the heart of Europe, working alongside and co-ordinating with local and regional law enforcement operations. 

Jean Phillippe Lecouffe, Deputy Executive of Operations at Europol, spoke with Collared recently and gave us an unique insight to the agency. We also speak to Tommas Kaplan about his early career combating terrorism and terrorist financing as an undercover police detective.

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PLUS AML Intelligences Senior Correspondent Paul O’Donoghue explains exactly what FATF’s Grey Lists and Black Lists are, how they work, their economic implications, and what it really means for a country to be put on one of these lists.

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We also hear from AML Intelligence Co-Founder and Chair, Stephen Rae and Senior Correspondent Paul O’Donoghue about Narco States. What are they? How do they occur? And why is this a growing problem?

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As she comes to the end of her presidency, Senior Correspondent for AML Intelligence Paul O’Donohue, had the unique opportunity to speak to her and take a retrospective at her term in office.

They also discussed crucial role that FATF plays in the world of Compliance, the growing threats of Financial Crime on the global economy as well as Fraud Detection and Prevention.

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