"I took a couple of days and we made a profile that I think Mariah is really going to connect with." "Are you guys ready to meet this entirely fake person that we've created out of nothing?" Lisa, Mark, I want you guys to meet Mason Williams. He's Mariah's age. He dresses very.. kind of trendy." Well, I don't know about you, but He looks very good-looking and I certainly would connect with him. Hello everyone, i'm Alex and welcome back to another episode of TLC but this time We're not doing 90 day fiancé We are looking at the great series called "I catfished my kids" Cause that's normal- pretending to have sexual Conversations with your child as someone else to tell them why they shouldn't have sexual Conversations on the Internet. That would definitely discourage them or scar them for life. MmmMMmm It's in between the two. Now These parents have created a fake profile to catch out their teenage daughter and his name is Mason. He's not got much clout though. So, you know, I don't think this really could work out in their favor. He's into photography, art, and hiking.. So he's basic. He's a basic bitch. And his bio is "A picture is worth a thousand words especially when it's a picture of A pretty smile." When in reality if he was actually a real teenage boy, it'd be tight along the lines of "chat chit get banged." With his football club hash-tagged in and a picture of a football on the end of it. Well, let's see if this Mason character can catfish their daughter. It's a normal sentence. "Mark, I want you guys to meet Mason Williams. He's Mariah's age, He dresses very kind of trendy, very with it. Fresh cut swag." Trendy and with it. He wears a scarf. That's what- that's what you mean by trending with it. You mean that he's wearing a scarf. He's a hipster. He practically invented Apple. "You know, he's a cool kid." He's a cool kid.. -photography. Now I used to do photography and video work. And I don't think anybody I knew would describe me as a cool kid. Probably bullied. "I'm gonna let you guys navigate this. What do you guys think we should say to Mariah?" "What's up or something? Something like that?" "That's good." "What's up?" "Yeah what's up?" "Something like a guy would say, you know." "Type it in, go for it, yeah." What's up? No, that is very wrong. They go straight to asking for nudes. It's 2018. They cut the bullshit that's what apps like Tinder are for, so you probably get more success rate with that actually. "Okay, click send." "Boom. Now we have made contact and we'll know she'll be willing to talk to us privately. Oh, there you go." "Oh my god!" Plus I'm realistic. They got a reply, I never get those. Just get left on read receipt. Can I be signed up to this? "She said parents kicked me out of the house for some alone time." "Haha, so I'm stuck babysitting my brother and sister." "Oh, that's nice now he knows that she's got a brother and sister." "And that she's away from her parents." "He now not only he knows that she's alone but that my other two children are alone too, including my seven-year-old daughter." They've made this dark already haven't they? You know Normally, we wait a bit Before we go in with the whole; Maybe there's a pedophile kidnapper coming to take away my children But this time we've gone straight in with that one. I'm more worried about the parents in this situation if anybody's a.. "apparently a freak" because they're trying to bait out their own children instead of just having a conversation with them about Maybe not giving away certain details and why they may cause a problems No We'll teach you of an example and then proceed to ruin your life and trust of us to the end of time "Great. Mark you want to say hitting the beach?" Yeah. We could find a photo of a beach and send it to her to kind of drive the point home So this is a trick that actual predators use to look real well if you fall for that in 2018 you're an idiot because we have reverse image search which is something that you could use many times So if you're falling for that one then honestly, you deserve to- no, no, that was too far... But if they're pulling out tricks like that You're not exactly what equipped are you for this. "It's incredible." How many tools are there for these predators to create the perfect world to lure their victims in. Let´s see if she responds to that one oh Wow And a happy face? That´s not just a happy face That's happy face with hearts in the eyes "Thats not good..." Oh no! not a happy face with hearts in the eyes! That really gives off a terrible vibe That's different to a normal happy face We've all been told to stay away from people who would do that You know That's how you know that you've managed to catch somebody That's how you know that you've managed to lure somebody and if they send you the one of the love hearts in the eyes You are in there my friends. "How does it make you feel nervous?" "She's jumping in on it." She just likes how the beach once That's really it. She just likes the beach She likes the beach and the way the beach looks and now she's being turned into some form of Jumping into conclusions and wants to suddenly sleep with some random boy on the internet within a five-minute conversation. "Yeah, she's saying goodbye, it looks like. Whats TTYL Stand for? Talk to you later." Yeah, come on, man if you try to catfish at least understand the lingo That we use, you know, at least understand the hip cool lingo the kids like me use. The mum knows maybe She's preying on people because that may be one of the only reasons That she knows how to use that language because she uses it on kids pretending to be a teenager because let's face it I don't think this is the first time they've catfished one of their children This is probably like a hobby for them. They just do this for fun. "We have successfully established a messaging relationship with Mariah" "Now the only thing left to do is to invite her to this park" God they've jumped! Quite fast haven't they. They've gone from hey, we got one Conversation the last route 30 seconds. Let's lure her to the park, you know Why pick a park? I feel like if she does turn up she's an idiot. If you stranger online asked you to come to the park What are you expecting? but at the same time can't you just speak to the child Is that too much to ask for you know Actually a conversation of your kid having a general sit-down and telling them why it's wrong to do stuff like this on the Internet. No Lure them to a park Lure them to a park and kidnap them. "We're gonna say that Mason is doing a photo shoot And he wants her to come model." He's a white guy and he said the word hood Immediate red flags, wether he's real or not. You should not go to meet up with somebody who's done that now we wait "Okay think she's responded yep, and let's see Mariah said awesome, what should I wear?" Well, that was easy wasn't it? comes with the park White guy says the white hood She's jumped on it You need to teach her more about standard. It's more than anything at this point I'm gonna say she should wear something summery and that I look forward to meeting her you made a mistake there Elliot, mate Should he use the love heart emoji in the eyes would have really changed the conversation. You've gone with a happy face Rookie mistake if you're trying to lower somebody in to a park And we didn't just choose this park randomly It's actually in walking distance to where she lives which is something a predator might actually do at first glance This place seems totally normal, but there are actually cameras everywhere That's almost weirder predators wouldn't normally come out with that much camera equipment normally just a handheld phone You've got 17 cameras on her making sure that you get every angle But you need to cover to embarrass her to everybody but I suppose that will teach her the lesson through trauma After the gazebo, I'm going to be asking Mariah if she wants to get inside the van. It's just she bites her The park he's done that alright. He's inviting her to the park Which immediately I thought was not gonna work, but then he's gonna ask her to get in the van if she get seen There was no hope I'm gonna do is say the Masons just down the street and we're gonna go meet up with him Hopefully she doesn't see ivory she doesn't but she probably will she's a moron at this point and she's gonna do it Mariah is this so ominous? Hey just go. It is tracking home with big cameras Li Mariah. What are you doing? Where are you going? I can't quite see. Where are you Mariah? We're looking for you. Where are you? We're gonna find you Why don't you come into the van, you know ignore these two cameras that I've got ominously around me Just come into the coming to the land Hi, how's it going? How are you? Hi, I'm Elliot by the way, sorry Hi, I'm a friend of Mason's So Mason was here earlier, but that you were smarter He basically said the lighting is way too right Oh, is she so old he's just approached her as a rounded person I'm getting the chills, but you know, she quite clearly isn't very intelligent dad It's maybe because you don't have a conversation about it. You just tried to catfish her instead Say if you drive this conversation earlier, maybe she would have done this So he's he just went down the street a second ago to try to find like a better location. Oh My god like he wanted me to hang out here because I don't wanna waste any time do you wanna go see him right now? She's crying this is oh this has got dark this went from being sung I could kind of tell to make her after tonight where I'm like oh I'm watching somebody getting abducted don't know who else to say that. Okay, great Okay, it's right in this area over here He was like, you know, just hang out wait for her because I wanna make sure you know, it works out Park five-minute text conversation van She's agreed to all three. What are you expecting? It's a hat trick my friends. It's a hat trick It's kind of hot to walk if you want we can just hop in here it'll take two seconds This is where all the equipment is anyway, if you want hop in here, I know it's kind of like a giant it's actually really nice and new and Look at that van. The only thing their missing is It's not white with the words free candy Written on the side of it because that's all they really had to do to really really really sell this We should be able to get there in like I think it's probably like a three minute drive. Look at it. Look inside there whose get in there who is getting that and it looks like Terrible things happen in there. Look at those ominous white boards ever even put the effort in putting like a Snickers bar in there I'm saying just like that, you know, we'd slightly toast right a bit more like a little rat That works. Yeah (BUM BA DUM DUM) Mariah!! ARE YOU CRAZY? ARE YOU
OUTTA YOUR MIND?? pranked! you've been pranked Mariah this was all a prank the whole time Your family have been in the car. There's cameras over here. There's cameras over there It's all but a big prank. There's no guy called Mason. We just wanted to make you think you're getting kidnapped and we lied... So it stranger danger doesn't affect you again What are you doing? You realize you just you just walked into it like a death trap? What are you thinking how could you do something this dumb She's crying on camera You've put this girl for truama on national television to prove a point I mean suppose maybe It will go on to stop other people from doing stuff like this and maybe it will inspire other families to not Put their kids on TV and actually inspire them to have a conversation with them about why they shouldn't do stuff like this, but God, I can't feel like This maybe could have been done in a less traumatic way to this individual as a person You promised me you'd never do this again. -Again? What? -Do this again? What do you mean by that? - I just thought that because a public park it wouldn't matter You were gonna walk in the fucking van. What do you mean? -Mariah, you lied to me. -This is not the time You should be trying to help her I was saying I mean I thought you should do You probably shouldn't give them a lecture on why they lie You should be like we really want you to not do this, but we want the best for you Not "You're a liar and you're gonna get killed one day." Don't do it again I'm sorry Guys why don't you go sit over in the gazebo and talk? Yeah getting away from the big fuck-off Pedophile van we don't want people near that we've got to use that later to pick up some other people We have got to figure this out so we're gonna start by making changes Lots of changes so obviously Mason isn't real Your parents and I actually created him the whole idea of this is to show that While you might think you have like total control over what you're doing in reality. You don't know like Who's gonna be waiting for you on the other end of that cell phone? That's all fine. Well, I was honest There's a scary man skateboarding background right there. He was doing it. Very ominous whining. Maybe he's a predator Maybe he's been watching the whole time picking up on tips, and I'm not speak for He wasn't asking me to Go is housing is to take pictures. I just don't get this There are a lot of creeps out there clam down my friend. I think she does one of them is you For doing this on a TV show creeps out there you get it I Want to keep you safe and sound you're a beautiful girl, you know There's a lot of creepy guys that will prey on you we did all this to kind of show how a Predator would do it these days and even we've a lot of time in the world they decided to go with hiking as one of the things they put in their information or bio oh well thank you guys watch this video if you did enjoy it then Please subscribe to the channel and leave a like and turn notifications on if you want to see more From me and I am going to go Hiking probably I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace out people to have a good day
