it can take a very big toll on your mental health as well so i think opportunities for creators to, kind of, regain that connection with their audience in a real direct way is something that s going to be really beneficial going forward. we have talked about making money via social media but of course, for every well intentioned musician, there is someone perhaps with slightly darker motives. i have been speaking to cath, who is a reporterfrom the bbc panorama programme who has been investigating a new kind of criminal, the fraud influencer. fraud influence is someone who has a large following but the difference is the engaging content they are putting out there is fraud. they are promoting this glamorous, criminal lifestyle and sometimes even using social media to sell criminal services, fraudulent services. now, you looked into an influencer called tankz. how many followers does
various step by step guides on how to exploit weaknesses in the systems of online retailers, banks, a guide on how to defraud the government s universal credit scheme. he also provided you with links to websites where you can go and buy people s stolen personal information, known as fulls. we can hear a little bit from your panorama now. i m a london scammer, i see it, i want it, i click it. this is the sound of tankz, a fraud influencer, who posts on youtube bragging about scams while keeping his true identity hidden. he has more than 150,000 followers across various social media platforms. tankz and others like him are openly trading takes on defrauding individuals, companies, banks and even the benefit system. now, these fraud influencers use a whole array of different social media platforms, so what did those platforms say when you told them about tankz?
he has been investigating a new kind of criminal, the fraud influencer. a fraud influencer is someone who has a large following but the difference is the engaging content they are putting out there is fraud. they are promoting this glamorous, criminal lifestyle and sometimes even using social media to sell criminal services, fraudulent services. now, you looked into an influencer called tankz. how many followers does he have online and what are those followers seeing? he has over 150,000 followers across different platforms. tiktok, instagram, snapchat, twitter, and he posts these day in the life videos, day in the life of tankz, day in the life of a clicker a slang word for fraud and you can see him glamorising fraud, waving large amounts of cash, wielding multiple bank cards and on instagram he is selling manuals, methods he calls them, on how you can commit fraud. you bought some of these manuals, these guides, to have a look at what was
directly monetise people. but that 96.5% figure, that s quite telling, isn t it? it is. i think this is a really - broadly ranging subject and. the haves have an awful lot of money and they have - the have nots who are most of us when it comes to thatl creator space and i think that tiktok in particular by tryingl to develop a new way - of doing this where they try and monetise as many people as they can by giving them - a little bit, but there are always different platforms, not least patreon as well, - who are kind of offering other alternatives. a sort of way of spreading out your eggs in many, i many baskets. becky, let me talk to you a moment about when you were a youtube influencer as a teenager under the name of becky cruel, i think. and you did a lot of material which was watched and widely
on offer, so what did you find? i can t go into too much detail because we don t want to teach people how to commit fraud! fair enough. but it came in the form of a cloud storage link, and you click on it and find various step by step guides on how to exploit weaknesses in the systems of online retailers, banks, a guide on how to defraud the government s universal credit scheme. he also provided you with links to websites where you can go and buy people s stolen personal information, known as fulls. we can hear a little bit from your panorama now. # i m a london scammer, i see it, i want it, # | click it. ..# this l is the sound of tankz, a fraud influencer. he posts tracks on youtube bragging about scams, while keeping his true identity hidden. he has more than 150,000 followers across various social media platforms. tankz and others like him are oh so openly trading tricks for defrauding individuals, companies, banks and even