social media platforms. with a total of over 150,000 followers, tankz is a social media influencer who promotes crime. fraudsterss kind of crime to a new audience. i've gone back to my old school to meet some year 12s. these students are not involved in fraud themselves but have agreed to talk me through what school kids are finding on social media. when did you start seeing fraud specific posts on social media? i'd say around year 10. so that's like 15? on social media. has this become like a thing for young people? yeah, definitely. no one really brags about other crimes. you don't really hear people say, oh yeah, i robbed that house last night. so that's why if it's on social media, it's everywhere, you've seen the lifestyle, you've seen everything, then there's no reason for you to think it's really bad. i think it's very much glamorised all over social media to have the rich lifestyle. and so it doesn't really matter how you get there. the fraudsters, they're thinking as it's not myi pocket, i don't care. but they don't actually sit - there and think whose pocket is it coming out of. that person is losing o

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fraudsters. did that mean using burner phones, fake social media profiles to make sure that you are protecting yourselfwalking around with several burner phones with burner sim cards and multiple fake identities online and fake profiles. the fraudsters remain anonymous and we were doing the same thing to detect ourselves. thing to protect ourselves. i know you track down the person who seemed to have been tankz and his own social media posts seem to have let you there. what did you spot there? so, that's the problem that these fraud influences because part of being an influence in showing your an influencer means showing your because part of being an influencer means showing your life online and tankz showed a bit too much online. there were little clues in his videos which helped us track him down. for starters, one video gave us a glimpse of his car number plate, which we were able to search official records and identify as a grey vauxhall corsa. another video showed a distinctive patterned carpet which we linked to a student accommodation block in wembley. the next step was to go to that student acc

social media platforms and internet fraud. it has resulted in the ftc needing more resources to go after the's fraudsters and we need to properly resource this agency because consumers rely on it we heard several witnesses say it is under resourced and far fewer employees than they need to address the explosion of consumer fraud and bad actors out there. >> and the technologist would be very helpful. >> we really need to ramp up the technology side because the industry is very well-equipped on their end to defend against concerns about fraud and disinformation on the platforms. . . . . of statet question, can you speak to this growing patchwork of laws and how they may be impacting the commerce clause? >> thank you, congressman. that's right i think the commerce clause holds that even though congress is not more legislated that there is an area of government activity to sort of reserve the federal government rather than for the states and what the courts look at is whether or not the state law and whether they discriminate against business or commercial activity that occurs in other states. so whether or and all the law enacted