It’s crucial to stay informed when using social media. These days, scams are everywhere. However, it is certain that those who commit crimes will eventually be punished. Fortunately for everyone, an Alabama criminal known as the “TikTok Trickster” has finally been arrested.
According to Dexerto, this follows a two-year manhunt to identify and locate him. In Spanish Fort, Alabama, the "TikTok Trickster" had his mask ripped off. At last, it was found that he was Brenton Fillers, 57.
He has been charged with stealing money and property from women over a minimum of two years by using social media as a deceptive tactic. He stole a car from a woman named Tricia, which is arguably his most disgusting stunt.
Fillers started leaving comments on her TikTok posts while pretending to be actor Jason Mitchell. In the end, they made the decision to meet in person. "Jason Mitchell" said that he would take her car to be fixed after they had been spending few days together but she never saw him again.
In April, he was first taken into custody in North Carolina on various charges. However, he has since been extradited and is now charged with two charges of theft of property and illegal credit card possession.
The "TikTok Trickster" is thought to have "used dozens of aliases in multiple states over several decades,” according to police. Unfortunately, the "TikTok Trickster" did not only affect Tricia. An unidentified Indiana woman also came forward to share how she was scammed, according to Fox 10 News.
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Brenton Fillers was allegedly using social media to deceive women before stealing money and property from them pic.twitter.com/swNXLe0Nx6
"Jason Aldridge" was another identity that Fillers used for this woman. Through TikTok, he built a relationship with her and offered "credible" answers to any questions or concerns she had. "He is really good at what he does. Every time I questioned him, he had an answer and said, 'You can look it up,’” she said.
She said that during a ten-month period, she sent Fillers more than $30,000 through money transfer apps like Venmo. She claimed he was at the hospital and made up "emergencies" like brain cancer and a bleeding ulcer. "That's really how he got a lot out of me. He didn't want to eat their food, and he didn't bring his wallet,” she said.
Fillers has been hunted by police in several states, and Chief John Barber of the Spanish Fort Police Department in Alabama claimed that the media attention on this case led to his arrest. “The only way we would have gotten this is through the media attention,” he said to Fox 26.
“We only knew that someone as prolific as him- he’s a con artist, he moves around the country, that he’s only going to be caught by someone seeing pictures of him – going, ‘wow, that is the guy I’m talking to, or that my friend is talking to.’”
Police warned that Fillers would message women on TikTok and build a relationship with them before he was arrested. He would con women into giving him money and sometimes cars by telling them emotional stories.
Chief Barber stated, “If he’s got someone right now that he’s with, he’s working on the next one.” “Even the one right after that. He is somewhere right now under a false name with another lady. They have no idea the person next to them is a scam artist.”
