The REACT Task Force is a multi-jurisdictional team of local, state, and federal agencies formed to combat the escalating problem of high technology crime and the threat it poses to the health and welfare of our public and private communities. REACT supports local law enforcement agencies with cryptocurrency tracing and other high technology related investigations.
By creating a multi-jurisdictional team that combines resources and specific expertise, REACT is able to investigate, arrest, and prosecute a wide range of criminal offenders and offenses.
Mission
- Assist in the investigation of high technology- related crime, including but not limited to:
- Cryptocurrency scams, including pig butchering schemes, investment fraud, phishing attacks, and blackmail scams
- White Collar Crimes including automated teller machine, skimmer, and credit card fraud, committed by means of electronic or computer-related media
- Network intrusion
- Money laundering accomplished with the aid of computer networks or electronic banking transfers
- Theft of telecommunications service, theft of wireless communications service
- SIM-Swapping
- Assume an active role in the education and distribution of information on high technology crime throughout the community and law enforcement through presentations to community groups, private industry, the media, and law enforcement
Our History
REACT was established in 1997 by the State of California Department of Justice, in response to both public and industry concerns over the spread of a new type of crime directly tied to our increasingly computer-oriented economy and widespread use of the internet. REACT is one of five task forces in the State of California authorized under California Penal Code 13848.