Cryptocurrency is a digital form of payment that can be exchanged for goods and services.  Using a technology called blockchain, cryptocurrencies provide inherent security for transactions for buyers and sellers making it an ideal format for illicit and illegal transactions.

This course provides a foundation for understanding cryptocurrencies, it’s original Dark Web beginnings, and highlights major cases (e.g. Silk Road online black market, Silk Road 2.0, and others).

The course also provides real world investigations techniques for Federal, State and Local investigators to understand, access, and effectively prosecute and seize related cryptocurrency assets.

David Ferris

David Ferris has been a law enforcement officer for 19 years.  He has specialized in cybercrimes and technology facilitated child exploitation for the last 15 years. He currently serves as a supervisory special agent with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, Cyber Crime Unit.   He has also been appointed as the Commander of the Louisiana Internet Crimes against Children Task Force.  He has conducted thousands of hours of instruction and investigation in online undercover operations.  He has trained local, state, and federal law enforcement officers to conduct online investigation in the areas of online solicitation, human trafficking and advance Peer to Peer Networks. David has received a Bachelors of Art in Psychology from Ashford University in Clinton, Iowa. He is a United States Marine Corps veteran having served in Iraq. He has been certified as an expert in Undercover Peer to Peer investigations, Cybercrimes, and Child exploitation in numerous courts and boards throughout the state of Louisiana. 

Host: POLICE TECHNICAL

Location: Online Seminar 647 Ohio Street Online Seminar, 47807 Get Directions

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