SCAMS
You just got an email from the royalty of a different country offering you $15,000,000, explaining that you are their lost nephew, and your uncle (whom you never heard of) recently passed
What is the Nigerian Prince Scam?
Which Local ACAMS Chapter won the prestigious Chapter Of The Year 2025 award?
What is the The South Florida Chapter!!!!
A customer deposits just under the $10,000 reporting threshold multiple times in a short period
What is structuring (smurfing)?
This U.S. agency collects and analyzes Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and shares intelligence with law enforcement to combat money laundering.
What is FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)?
This Miami mayor, serving since 2017, is the first to be born in the city and is known for promoting cryptocurrency and business-friendly policies.
Who is Francis Suarez?
You just received a text message from a young woman you apparently met at a party last week — though you don’t remember her. After exchanging a few messages, she tells you about an incredible opportunity to make money by investing in crypto. The returns sound phenomenal, and you’re suddenly tempted to send her all your money!
What is the Pig Butchering Scam?
This professional designation, offered by ACAMS, signifies expertise in anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention.
What is CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist)?
Informal remittance networks run by unregistered agents who move value across borders without formal banking — often used by migrant workers and merchants to send cash to family or business partners.
What is Hawala?
An investigative tactic where officers pose as participants (buyers, couriers, or service providers) to infiltrate laundering networks, gather evidence, and identify co-conspirators.
What is an undercover or sting operation?
Florida is known for having more of these than any other state, many of which seem to appear out of nowhere on your lawn at night.
What are alligators?
You just met the most handsome man on OkCupid, who’s offering you a beautiful vacation in Paris and professing endless love. After a few weeks of chatting, he claims he’s lost his wallet and asks you to send him $500
What is the Romance Scam?
The CAMS exam tests knowledge across multiple domains, including risk assessment, AML program management, investigations, and this key regulatory framework required in all financial institutions.
What is the Bank Secrecy Act / BSA compliance framework?
Criminal proceeds are used to buy high-value assets like luxury cars or real estate to disguise the source of funds.
What is trade-based or asset-based money laundering?
A legal mechanism allowing authorities to seize criminally derived property — cash, bank accounts, vehicles, or real estate — used to disrupt and punish illicit activity.
What is asset forfeiture?
This Florida city’s nickname is “The Big _______,” though locals know it’s more like “the big traffic jam.”
What is Miami?
You receive an anonymous message claiming to have explicit images of you and threatening to publish them unless you wire $2,000
What is the Sextortion Scam?
This certification, offered by ACAMS, is tailored for professionals specializing in financial crime investigations.
What is Advanced CAMS-Financial Crimes Investigations (CAMS-FCI)?
A recent development in money laundering typologies involves a new group of launderers who are undercutting traditional operators by offering their services at significantly lower fees.
What is Chinese Money Laundering?
Several U.S. federal law enforcement agencies also hold formal intelligence roles — including the FBI, DEA, DHS, and others — forming part of the U.S. Intelligence Community. In total, how many federal law enforcement agencies are officially recognized as members of the U.S. Intelligence Community?
What is seven?
Who are they:
FBI, DEA, DHS/Office of Intelligence & Analysis, Coast Guard Intelligence, Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
This infamous serial killer was convicted of multiple murders in Florida in the 1970s, including the attacks at the Chi Omega sorority house, and was executed in 1989.
Who is Ted Bundy?
You get a frantic call from someone claiming to be your grandchild’s lawyer — your grandchild is supposedly in trouble and needs $3,500 wired immediately
What is the Grandparent Scam?
How much does it cost to become a South Florida Chapter Member for one year?
What is $50?
An individual is recruited through a job ad promising “easy money” for moving funds through their personal bank account, often claiming it’s part of an international business or charity.
What is a money mule scheme?
A prosecutorial strategy that targets an entire criminal organization by charging racketeering, conspiracy, and multiple predicate offenses to secure broader remedies and longer sentences.
What is using RICO / racketeering statutes in money-laundering prosecutions?
This fictional Cuban immigrant rises to power in Miami’s drug trade in the iconic 1983 film, becoming one of the most notorious “gangsters” in Florida fiction.
Who is Tony Montana?