According to the information obtained from MASAK, it was revealed that in 2021, in the social media application called “Twitch”, with the cooperation between some publishers and credit card fraudsters, the amounts in the credit cards of the citizens were transferred to the publishers under the name of “donation”, and the revenues of crime were laundered and the publishers received commission from it.
EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON TIKTOK CLAIMS
MASAK conducted an extensive research on the subject of allegations of money laundering on the social media platform TikTok, which is stated to have approximately 29 million users in Turkey.
In the research, it was understood that users collected donations under the name of “gift” during live broadcasts on the social media platform called TikTok, and these collected donations were later converted into Turkish lira and transferred to their accounts.
Especially since the beginning of 2021, it has been seen that approximately 1.5 billion liras have been transferred by the platform to local and foreign TikTok users in Turkey. It was determined that the vast majority of the transferred amounts were sent to a small number of people, indicating that a very narrow audience actually received a large amount of money from TikTok.
On the other hand, it has been learned that there is a similar situation for people who transfer money to the platform in order to send “gifts” to TikTok users who broadcast live, that is, a large part of the transferred amount is made by a very narrow audience.
PHENOMENENS ALSO TRANSFERRED MONEY FROM DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS TO THEM TO INTERACT
In addition, it was seen that some TikTok influencers made donations from different accounts in order to attract more people and receive donations under the name of “gifts”. This situation revealed that many citizens were pushed to donate by being deceived.
On the other hand, on the platform in question, which has many users under the age of 18, it was seen that some publications containing donations made obscene publications, thus collecting donations through the platform. In this context, it was evaluated that it was possible to establish relationships with some people outside the platform.
MONEY FLOWED TO THE BLACK SCREEN
In addition, it was understood that some accounts with a very low number of followers collected unusually large donations even though there were pictures or black screens in their live broadcasts, and these collected amounts were transferred to their accounts. Strong suspicions were taken into account that such accounts were funded by donations made from stolen credit cards, and then these amounts were laundered by transferring them to the accounts.
DAESH COLLECTED DONATIONS THROUGH TIKTOK
In the research conducted by MASAK, it was among the important findings that some people directly or indirectly related to the DEASH terrorist organization collected serious donations from the social media platform called TikTok.
Evaluating that terrorist-related people, who know that transactions made over the financial system are followed, carry out fundraising activities through the platform in order to make it difficult to follow up and facilitate transfer, MASAK continues its research on money transfers on the TikTok social media platform by deepening.
(Source: AA)