Young & Invisible: Inside the Next Generation of Fraudsters
For decades, we have thought of scammers as rogue actors – con artists or opportunistic criminals who target the elderly, the ill-informed and the vulnerable, seeking to gain access to their money or their identities. This is no longer the reality.
In this episode of At the Coalface, Arun Chauhan, founder of Tenet Law and a specialist lawyer in fraud, disputes and investigations, will be joined by Kaf Okpattah, an award-winning investigative journalist, podcast producer, recipient of a Media Freedom Award for Young Journalist of the Year in 2024 and the youngest presenter of BBC’s Panorama where he exposed the truth about social media fraudsters.
Drawing on Kaf’s relentless investigative journalism into the new generation of fraudsters, we will hear the journey from Kaf as played out in his new book Scam Nation
He describes “in this new arms race of deepfake calls, psychological manipulation and advanced money laundering techniques, these criminals – many of them still teenagers – remain constantly one step ahead of the authorities and are adept at exploiting our social and digital weaknesses.”
- The young scammers: understanding what does ‘fraud school’ look like in the modern world, how and why do people get into a career of scamming so early in their lives.
- The London scammer: Kaf’s chase and investigation into identifying social media scammer influencers including the identifying of Tankz (the “London Scammer”), as shown in BBC Panorama.
- Understanding their tools and methods: Hearing from the discoveries Kaf made about the tools of influence to trap victims and how these criminals share information and methods
- The law and the response: Kaf’s perspective on the law, response and intervention of Scam Nation, i.e., these perpetrators of financial crime.
- What happens next: What is catching Kaf’s ears and eyes on educating, preventing and disrupting the next generation of fraudsters.
Join us to learn how organisations can protect their customers, their business and reputations from someone who has felt the heartbeat of Scam Nation.