0:00 did that ever happen to you when you were a kid in chat rooms nobody ever got creepy no they did but I would just leave the chat room but it was always ASL yeah ASL and I'd always make stuff up yeah always I'm like 96 female Alabama [Music] exactly all right so have any of you guys been catfish or catfish someone else ever I don't know well I already guarantee no matter what you know about catfishing this is going to be the worst thing you've ever heard by far about catfishing all right later the worst okay uh there's a guy named Alex McCartney he's 26 he was living in his parents house in Northern Ireland and he's uh been arrested for catfishing up to 70 children 70 successfully cat children successfully catfish over 70 children yeah out of a possible 3500
0:51 suspected victims I don't like this uh over just a few years and he's racked up 185 criminal charges this guy was constantly arrested since 2016 but he kept getting released on bail or whatever reason and every time he got out he did worse stuff so uh here's where it gets to the absolute wor worst worst worst crime okay it's not even going to nothing you can think of will Top what this guy did okay uh he's uh he created a Snapchat account where he pretended to be a 13-year-old girl who was like mentally struggling with her body or something like that was his like his M he say sarcastic yeah I know well because that's why cuz he's faking it that's why that's never a thing no it's like I'm invalidate he um yeah he says he's struggling with his body and
1:42 sexuality and he's this fake 13-year-old girl and he tries to find other young girls who might have the same issues and while he's talking to them he kind of gets them to share a lot about it and and he's trying to hope that he's finding young girls who might be gay so that he can open up this dialogue and get them to like show themselves in which cases they began to do and once they do once he has that one incriminating photo or like uh inappropriate material then he flips it and tells them like that he's not really a girl and that he's now going to send this to their families unless they continue black males yeah he blacks him into sending worse and worse content and uh in which case a lot of these kids were doing that and oh that's a fresh new ho it's yeah it's crazy and then so uh yeah right would that be yeah yeah it
2:34 it is yeah the threats became ongoing and the material would progressively get more graphic to the point where like he would even have videos of the kids like hurting themselves like harming themselves over this and by 2016 one of his victims was this 12-year-old girl from Virginia and uh she was so afraid of the material going public that she ended up uh taking her own life and when the girl's father found out all about what happened he took his own life to oh God and there that's like a full family there's like three daughters and like two parents yeah but I think like the shock and depression of what had happened to his kid like caused him to just like lose it yeah so then he's this guy Alex McCarney he's currently in custody now and it uh yeah it seems like
3:26 he's continued to offend and scam other kids every time they look at his record of like when he was released and his uh victims never stopped happening like he just kept going kept going every time they they let him out uh I guess he's like a computer science student or some ████ and they say that that kind of played into like how he would uh scam people and that everyone who knew him apparently says that he was like a total sociopath had no regard for like other people yeah and that even when he talks about what he did like he's he has no remorse or anything he he looks at it like sport basically how do they just keep letting him out that's what I don't get bro exactly yeah yeah they just keep on letting him out and then he just keeps going keeps doing it but yeah the fact that it's 3500 possible yeah that's wild that's a huge number I think I've ever met that that's
4:17 a lot like that sounds so accessible cuz his victims are also worldwide he's like spamming just everybody one is already enough yeah I could barely send in applications to jobs and he's over here I can't even match my socks like I just don't have time and that's like that's a lot dude that's and how do they know it's that many I guess they're looking through his actual history oh on Snapchat yeah they were able to find all the material that he kept from all these like different kids and uh and they're telling they're like in the reports you can actually read what he's getting them to do and it's horrible man yeah it's terrible and it really is like cuz when you're blackmailing kids they don't know they don't when you tell them I'm going to send this to your family I'm going to make it public on the forever like they're more afraid about getting in trouble than like that ████ happening yeah exactly yeah they're more they're just they don't want to be bullied at school yeah yeah they haven't and plus
5:09 they probably haven't gone through anything that showed how Time Heals it or time like they don't have the concept of like everyone forgets you know like it's fine yeah they just think it's forever so yeah it was like horrible what happened and but luckily they got this guy I mean kind of late yeah very late and how long was he doing that for uh um it says from 2016 I'm trying to imagine what he looks like oh try to imagine it Northern Ireland how close are you when you see his face bald white dude super white no I'm thinking yeah that's him that's him for sure I want to break his nose that's for sure him that is disgusting yeah no emotion undefined jaw that's him that's a good picture eyes are closed together it is he has like worse photos looks like he could be my cousin oh like not that's not a good thing but he does dude this is this is
5:59 him that's his that's his other pick which one do you like better um he looks like what's his name from um Fallout Boy on the left the lead guy yeah I just saw maybe squint and tilt your head I'm pretty sure I think it's the hair which one do you like better the left one looks like he's Kinder the one the left one he looks strong the right one Kinder no the right one it's not good he's like how do you protect your kids against this type of thing you don't let them have Snapchat well you you you talk to them you just sayy what's going on what's going on tell them this story how do all these kids how do these kids end up on these apps I don't understand they have they have access absent parents cuz in this economy everybody has to work they have they have access to so many things we never had access to like they their childhood is not their childhood I still
6:49 remember being like a kid and going in chat rooms and ████ but yeah like AOL but you can send pictures or anything like that and did that ever happen to you when you were a kid in chat rooms nobody ever got creepy no they did but I would just leave the chat it was always ASL yeah ASL and I'd always make stuff up yeah always I'm like 96 feemale Alabama ████ exactly they're like hot trolling everybody they still be down I'm like yeah that's so weird there's really no security when it comes to the internet like you can get past age restriction things like so easy yes I am 18 like yeah not a big what I like just being part of your kids life try to make sure you got you get close to them as possible they're willing to share anything with you I think that's the best way or maybe don't give them a a smartphone till they're like a give them a flip phone come on they're going to feel lame they're going to get bullied that's are you kidding I didn't have
7:39 like a a phone till I was sophomore in high school yeah same I had to like lie to get a phone what lie did you tell to get a phone oh my aunt and I fin angled a lie saying that like it was a contest and my aunt went and I went and got a phone cuz my dad don't want to have me get a phone yeah like you got to like you like you want a NOK a phone or whatever oh that's how like yeah that's how we got the phone is like we were walking in the mall and like something happened but like my mom and I and my aunt knew that like we were getting me a phone yeah we were just trying to like check my dad to get a phone and again it wasn't so I could do anything bad it was just I was gone a lot I had cheer I had swim practice like my mom's excuse was like okay well what if like she needs something and she's at a game and something happens you need to be able to communicate she to call access to the internet or apps or anything like that we didn't have that we we didn't have that we just all tell no you came you
8:29 went up outside and when the street lights came on you came inside yeah and when you were inside you were either on MySpace or Z I had a prepaid phone you were Myspace and you were making codes that no one could ever make codes now like we were we were coding so you were rearranging your top eight yeah you were mad at your friend you moved them down somebody had a on the on the refrigerator they do a top eight with their current friends and then when they come over they're like what the ████ like why am I not they're like you didn't make the cut slowly switching it out through the day on the fridge that's great that's cutro that's funny there's I don't know man the the more that we see stories like this there's just it almost feels like it's just luck like there's no way to fully Shield your kid from the ████ and that's why there's so many times when I should have been murdered for sure like think about it like I was doing such
9:19 sketch things when I was a kid who would let us go to houses we never knew the thing of and would just like to take the bus places like anywhere randomly yeah they taking it to the mall parking lot Pimpin like you guys I was not smart being in a Denny's parking lot at 3:00 in the morning at what age well you were pimp what that's just like what our group like our like high school group called it like you would meet up and there would be like 20 cars you pick your party and then you would like go and the older ones would call it like if you had the cars they called it that and then everyone rode together and then you mobbed out and like you probably should have not made it to that freeway exit we called it parking lot pimp when you were leaving the venue or the club and you didn't meet anybody inside so you're trying to like talk to girls outside yeah you try so you just hang out the parking lot and when girls walk by you're like hey what's up it's your like last chance we just like we'd always just go and drink in the fields everywhere like in a corn field or some
10:10 ████ who's going to find you there just run in a direction I don't know that's scary that's when you do get lost well yeah but then you figure it out or you don't that's scary me find a c later that's why women choose the bear oh my God choose the bear this guy is why women choose the bear yeah that guy is why to be honest and bears are cool I too big big fan of bears they're really cuddly super fluffy bear Enthusiast over here imagine if you give they give a bear a Snapchat account he does this which one huh extra fairy I think everybody has their favorite kind of horrible I hope this guy gets murdered in job yeah I hope so too he probably has
// end of tape