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As his victims know only too well. sending out fraudulent text messages like the one that tricked emmeline is known as spamming. we wanted to find out how easy it would be to become a spammer ourselves. uncle vio was ready to help. he's been advertising on snapchat for people to work with him. and he's easily reached through the messaging app telegram. he got back to us immediately. it cost £100 in bitcoin to buy our way in. he explained that he was offering a fake website for spamming phone numbers — or leads. for £15 more he said he would spam 4000 "leads" on our behalf.

After we wrote to snapchat, uncle vio's account was closed for violating community guidelines. criminals like uncle vio used to hide on the dark web, but now they don't need to. social media can give them enough anonymity to escape investigation. anonymous accounts are leaving notjust a small amount of breadcrumbs to investigate them, there are no breadcrumbs, there is no additional footprint left behind them, so to investigate this is nearly impossible. this anonymity has enabled some social media fraudsters to build influential brands without the fear of being caught. and there's one in part...

Payment of £29. i should probably let you know that i'm actually a bbc reporter for panorama. it's pretty obvious that you're trying to scam me, how can you do that? it's only like to give you a contract. it's clearly not though. any normal provider... go to hell with your cvv passcode. hangs up. uncle vio appears to be running a sort of criminal enterprise. but we haven't been able to identify him. after we wrote to uncle vio on social media, he phoned us, using his alias. he said he doesn't actually commit fraud himself but has people working for him. when asked about defrauding emmeline he...

I've never met uncle vio but thanks to a couple of apps on my phone and £115, i could have tried to defraud thousands of people. obviously i couldn't take part in the fraud, so i didn't take him up on the offer. instead, i asked if we could supply some numbers. vio agreed to the deal. but all of the phone numbers belonged to me. sure enough, i was targeted. it was scammers pretending to offer me a phone contract. you said you needed my bank details, is that right? yeah. what details would you need? so we will need like the sort code and the account number. we'll also take the card number and ...