Chapter Event Details
Event Title: Role Plays & Pay Rolls: How Online Games Fuel Illicit Financial Flows (2.0 CPE)
Event Date: January 21, 2026
Event Time: 12 Noon (Toronto Time) - 1:45 PM (Toronto Time)
Location:
Virtual by Zoom (GTA Chapter #23)
Toronto, Canada
Contact: Astra Williamson or Penny Hill
Email: admin@acfe-gta.com
Website: https://acfe-gta.com/event-6431861
CPE: 2.0
Member Fee:CA$25.00
Non-member Fee:CA$38.00
Speakers:
Kayla Cooper /
Event Details:
Multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as Fortnight, World of Warcraft, and Valorant are extremely popular online games with an extensive in-game international economy. Rare items can go for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. These items are usually purchased by first buying virtual in-game currency. The online video game economy provides a fast, simple and easy way to launder money or finance terrorists.. It is also not something regularly investigated by police, and online
games are not suspicious to police conducting search warrants. Gamers also use specific cultural and sub-cultural language and acronyms when communicating which are sometimes hard for a casual observer to understand, further obscuring their illicit activities. W will explore indicators of ML/TF through MMORPGs, explain gamer subculture in plain language, and provide general guidance to fraud examiners to identify this method of laundering.