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INTERCEPTED project aims to disrupt the digital model of THB by improving the digital capabilities of law enforcement and judicial authorities, focusing on two points for the disruption: recruitment and advertisement, taking into account that the methods used in terms of language, platforms, targets, and strategies vary according to the profiles of the victims and the type of exploitation.
Awareness of Trafficking Human Beings modus operandi among social media and website providers
Multi-agency response and public-private cooperation for the interception of criminals in the physical world
The project focuses its research and prevention activity in Central Europe and the Western Balkan route.
For a better understanding of the THB phenomenon and to keep abreast of trends from a technological and security point of view, INTERCEPTED includes cooperation between public actors and the private sector through the use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to design and develop structured responses against online THB activities.
To mark the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July, the INTERCEPTED project has launched a video campaign shining a light on one of the trafficking’s fastest-growing and least visible forms: forced cyber-scam labor. Behind the flood of spam texts and “too-good-to-be-true” job offers many of us dismiss and delete every day lies… Continue reading INTERCEPTED Marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
The INTERCEPTED project has launched an awareness video campaign targeting the rapidly evolving financial strategies of human trafficking networks. The campaign sounds the alarm on “cyber-laundering”, a high-tech shift that allows organised crime groups to clean illicit profits at fast speeds while remaining virtually invisible. The INTERCEPTED project emphasizes that cyber-laundering is the ultimate enabler… Continue reading New INTERCEPTED Campaign : The Rise of Cyber-Laundering
The INTERCEPTED consortium held its third Steering Committee meeting last week alongside its synergistic initiative, OSINT RADAR. The meeting marked an operational turning point, with the Venice Local Police taking over as the new general coordinator for both projects (INTERCEPTED and OSINT RADAR). This unified leadership ensures long-term strategic integration, transforming planning into immediate and… Continue reading Third Steering Committee of the INTERCEPTED Project
The 10th Intercepted online campaign has been launched on Human Rights Day to enhance the visibility of a human rights-based approach to combating Trafficking in Human Beings. This approach is enshrined in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which mandates obligations to prevent trafficking, establish a comprehensive framework for… Continue reading INTERCEPTED launches a campaign on Human Rights Day
On 13 November, INTERCEPTED project held its second seminar on trafficking under the title Strengthening Digital Capabilities to Counter Human Trafficking. This event was co-organised with the ASIT project, which, as INTERCEPTED, aims to prevent and combat online human trafficking. The event was opened by Antonio de Nicolo, from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Trieste… Continue reading Second INTERCEPTED Seminar: Digital Anti-Trafficking Capacities.
