Robin's Catfish Experience - Trying To Take Down The Platforms

Robin's Catfish Experience - Trying To Take Down The Platforms

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wake Up with Robin Terry and Tip Okay catfishing. We
have been talking about this for a couple of weeks
because I was pursuing someone who sent me a text
message on a Saturday night and I realized straight away
that they weren't her. They said they were. Because we're
a radio station, Because we have access to lots of
people like Pida from Ostrese International, we were able to

(00:22):
track down the fact that, yes, even though I was
told it was a forty seven year old guy, it
was a seven twenty seven year old bloke living with
his mum. And yesterday I kind of put an end
to all of that. I spoke to his mum. She
is getting him some help. I am pretty sure he
will never do it again. But the big question for
me was how did he get my number? And it

(00:45):
turns out he came clean and said there were a
couple of platforms he used. Now we have been spending
the last couple of days trying to work out exactly
what these platforms are because the implications are pretty terror
I did not give permission for anyone to use my
mobile phone number, or my email, or my address or

(01:07):
my age, and yet it appeared on a platform and
this bloke was able to pay money and use it.
Now again, I'm not going to tell you what those
platforms are until we are really aware of what it means,
not only for me but for everyone who are on there.
But what I will tell you it is a global
platform and it is used for another purpose, right okay. So,

(01:32):
and where that becomes problematic is that our privacy laws
in Australia are potentially different to international privacy laws. So
where we've gone in the first instance is Ruthie, our
wonderful executive producer, has sent an email and she said hello,
I'm Robin Bailey's producer from KIS ninety seven to three
Breakfast show in Brisbane, Australia. It has come to our

(01:53):
attention that Robin's personal details, including her mobile phone number
and personal email, are listed on your website without her permission,
and then she's attached to screenshot. Please remove these details
from your website immediately and send confirmation by reply email
that this has been actioned. I have simultaneously copied in
our senior legal counsel and we expect a response by

(02:15):
clothes of business today, right okay. So that's where we're
at So that's the initial thing we can do because
there is an ability within that platform to ask for
your stuff to be removed. However, a global platform. Who knows.
As yet, we haven't heard anything back, but we do
have a cyber expert at our disposal. We've heard if

(02:36):
you listen to us for a long time. Brett Lee
is his name. We've used him in cyber bullying. So
we are just waiting. He's a former undercover Internet detective, right,
ok So what he doesn't know isn't worth knowing. So
in the next twenty four hours we will get Brett
on and then once we get more of an idea
of how to navigate this, I promise you we will

(02:57):
tell you what this platform is you can well hopefully
navigate yourself around it. I say that, and I don't
actually can't guarantee that, but I'm trying to stop this
because it's actually a platform that is used for something
else that's quite quite innocent, right, but you know it's
been taken out of context and it's going to scare people. Okay,
can you tell us anything to do with dating, because

(03:18):
you know you're on the dating sites and stuff. No? Okay, no, no,
So that's the problem. Yeah, okay, that's the actual problem.
And it's got to pay wall, so right that kind
of makes it even a bit more creepy, but you
have to pay to get there. Yeah, so that's all. Like, Okay,
we will get bred on in the next couple of
days tuned, and if Brett Lee can't help us, we'll
get Michael Clark or any of the other a straining cricketers.

(03:41):
It's a different guy. He's not I'm sorry cricket. Okay,
wake up with Robin Tyrian Kim