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'You want to make a quick 1k?' How teens are being lured into crime via apps and games
Key takeaways
- Criminal syndicates have recruited young people online through gaming platforms like Roblox.
- Those crimes include fire-bombings, home invasions and kidnappings that have been occurring across Melbourne.
- Dr Adam Deacon told 7.30 that criminals are preying on minors who might be isolated or struggling with neurodevelopmental challenges, convincing them to carry out high-risk crimes for money, via encrypted platforms.
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Criminal syndicates have recruited young people online through gaming platforms like Roblox. (Getty Images)
Link copied Share Share article Organised crime syndicates are using encrypted digital platforms to recruit vulnerable teenagers with intellectual disabilities, low IQ and no criminal history, "conning" them to commit serious crimes, according to a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist.
Those crimes include fire-bombings, home invasions and kidnappings that have been occurring across Melbourne.
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