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Prosecutor Erin West Targets the Fraud Supply Chain
Original: The Fraud Economy Has a Supply Chain, and Erin West Is Going After It
California deputy district attorney Erin West is drawing attention for her approach to fighting online fraud, treating scam operations not as isolated crimes but as an industry with a full supply chain of money launderers, recruiters and infrastructure providers. The strategy, highlighted in recent coverage, focuses on disrupting the networks that enable large-scale pig-butchering and romance scams rather than prosecuting only low-level actors.
Why now: Growing public concern over industrial-scale online scam operations and how to dismantle them is putting West's approach in the spotlight.
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