i ve got to look at my list because we contacted quite a few social media platforms. we contacted twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat, youtube. they ll say they don t allow for content on their platforms and in relation to tankz per se, his accounts and those respective platforms barring twitter and youtube, they ve been taken down. let s get into the nuts and bolts of your investigation to an extent because there were some good old fashioned journalism going on here. how did you first come across these fraud influences? 0k, well, i might not look it, but i m quite young and like a lot of young people, i. you ve got a few years advantage on me, let s put it on that way! i hope so! i spend a lot of time on social media scrolling through snapchat and i kept noticing the fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out i m not the only one because as part of this investigation, i went to my old school to speak
when you told them about tankz? i ve got to look at my list because we contacted quite a few social media platforms. we contacted tiktok, twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat, youtube. they all say they don t allow fraud content on their platforms and in relation to tankz per se, his accounts and those respective platforms barring twitter and youtube, they ve been taken down. let s get into the nuts and bolts of your investigation to an extent because there was some good old fashioned journalism going on here. how did you first come across these fraud influencers? 0k, well, i might not look it, but i m quite young and like a lot of young people, i. you ve got a few years advantage on me, let s put it that way! i hope so! i spend a lot of time on social media scrolling through instagram and snapchat and i kept noticing these fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out i m not
0k, well, i might not look it, but i m quite young and like a lot of young people, i. you ve got a few years advantage on me, let s put it that way! i hope so! i spend a lot of time on social media scrolling through instagram and snapchat and i kept noticing these fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out i m not the only one because as part of this investigation, i went to my old school to speak to some 16 and 17 year olds. they said they were seeing the same thing, people glamorising fraud, selling methods on how you can commit fraud, and that s how i came across it and it turned out i m not the only young person who has seen this kind of thing. and in the documentary, we see you exchanging messages, even phone calls with some of the fraudsters. did that mean using burner phones, fake social media profiles to make sure that you are protecting yourself? yes, so there were times when i was walking around with several burner phones with burner sim cards in them and multiple so
but i m quite young and like a lot of young people, i. you ve got a few years advantage on me, let s put it on that way! i hope so! i spend a lot of time on social media scrolling through instagram and snapchat and i kept noticing these fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out i m not the only one because as part of this investigation, i went to my old school to speak to some 16 and 17 year olds. they said they were seeing the same thing, people glamorising fraud, selling methods on how you can commit fraud, and that s how i came across it and it turned out i m not the only young person who has seen this kind of thing. and in the documentary, we see you exchanging messages, even phone calls with some of the fraudsters. did that mean using burner phones, fake social media profiles to make sure that you are protecting yourself? yes, so there were times when i was walking around with several burner phones with burner sim cards in them and multiple sock puppet
because we contacted quite a few social media platforms. we contacted twitter, instagram, facebook, they all say they don t allow fraud content on their platforms and in relation to tankz per se, his accounts and those respective platforms barring twitter and youtube, they ve been taken down. let s get into the nuts and bolts of your investigation to an extent because there was some good old fashioned journalism going on here. how did you first come across these fraud influences? 0k, well, i might not look it, but i m quite young and like a lot of young people, i. you ve got a few years advantage on me, let s put it on that way! i hope so! i spent a lot of time on social media scrolling through snapchat and i kept noticing the fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out i m not the only one