Erin West founded Operation Shamrock with a mission to educate, mobilize, and disrupt scamming operations. Erin’s expertise comes from 26 years  spent as a Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, where she spent eight years leading investigations into cryptocurrency-enabled crimes, SIM-swapping, and digital financial fraud. She  founded the Crypto Coalition, an international network of nearly 2,000 law enforcement professionals focused on cryptocurrency investigations. Erin is also the host of Stolen, a podcast that brings listeners inside the darkest corners of the scamdemic, where love is weaponized, billions are laundered, and real people pay the price. 

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SCAM FACTORIES: THE WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING TRANSNATIONAL FORM OF ORGANIZED CRIME
Erin West is on a mission. She is the founder of Operation Shamrock, a global nonprofit uniting law enforcement, industry, and everyday citizens to disrupt the world’s fastest-growing form of transnational organized crime: pig butchering scams. After 26 years as a prosecutor—including eight on the REACT High-Tech Task Force where she became known for her relentless pursuit of crypto criminals—Erin now leads a cross-border fight to expose the scam economy, mobilize action, and protect both victims and the trafficked workers forced to run these schemes.