INTERCEPT ONLINE RECRUITMENT AND ADVERTISEMNT TO DISRUPT THE THB MODEL

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Traffickers’ increasing use of the internet was documented as a key criminal trend not only as a “digital hunting field” for recruitment. Cases evidenced how the internet can support traffickers in advertising trafficked services, hosting the provision of services (such as sexual exploitation or forced criminality), and even by facilitating logistic and payment of services or laundering of proceeds. INTERCEPTED focuses on two points of interception of the trafficking chain: recruitment and advertisement, consistently considering the ways in which methods differ in terms of language, platforms, targets, and strategies, according to the type of exploitation and profiles of the victims. INTERCEPTED focuses on disrupting the digital business models of traffickers, considering how evidence and strategies identified in the cyberspace can be used in concrete investigative, prevention, and protective measures in the physical world. It will target priority 3 of the call for proposals, aiming to strengthen the digital capabilities of law enforcement and judicial authorities in the framework of public-private cooperation, through a better and unbiased understanding of the phenomenon, an enhanced capacity to stay on-top of online trends from a technological and a policing perspective, and new tools for the detection and responses of recruitment for and advertisement of trafficked services online, fully exploiting the potentiality of the OSINT-HUMINT-SIGINT cycle. INTERCEPTED is managed by public private partners led by the Prosecutor Office of Trieste, Italy, in cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Interior, and 3 foundations specialized in security and prevention.INTERCEPTED will elicit key trends in online recruitment and advertisement for THB; design, develop and pilot customised investigative technologies for THB; develop all necessary training tools and materials needed for investigative strategy; and commit to the highest transferability and dissemination of the outputs