Protect your financial services and brand from criminal child sexual abuse payments with IWF payment brand alerts.
It is a distressing fact that there is a supply and demand for the commercial trade in images and videos of child sexual abuse. Many criminal gangs and individuals seek to profit from the suffering of innocent children by selling images online of children being sexually abused, to those who have a sexual interest in children.
These criminals set up often short-lived illicit websites referred to as ‘dedicated’ or ‘commercial’ sites offering access to higher severity images and greater volumes of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On the same site or through associated links provided on the site, forms of payment are offered, from traditional household names to newer payment facilitators and digital payment brands, unknowingly to them, their brands being complicit in enabling access to the most extreme abuse of children.
Join leading financial institutions in partnering with IWF to access specialised tools like payment brand alerts, ensuring your services aren't exploited for CSAM transactions. Our team of expert analysts are trained in identifying and grading CSAM and collate details of these sites, providing Payment Brand Alerts as well as many other Services to our Members in the financial sector. Our alert features the associated email addresses and merchant IDs, so that action can be taken quickly. We provide important information like transaction amounts to help track the payment.
We encourage any financial organisations to come and talk to us about joining IWF, wherever they sit in the payment process, to get immediate notifications when we find their legitimate brand being part of the payment ecosystem that is providing access to child sexual abuse images.
Discover how IWF membership empowers your financial service to combat online child exploitation effectively.
Are you interested in joining or want to hear more? Complete our membership enquiry form or contact our team by emailing [email protected] or by calling us on +44 (0)1223 20 30 30.
