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Channel: FOX 13 Tampa Bay
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all right no ordinary teenager that is
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how police and prosecutors are
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describing graham clark
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he is the local teen whose cyber crimes
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began
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when other kids were still playing video
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games that's right his crimes affecting
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some of the world's most powerful people
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though
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you may remember the story fox 13's
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gloria gomez tonight continues her
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series
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tampa bay true crime files and tonight
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she examines the case
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of a kid genius
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on july 15 2020 the twitter accounts
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of several high-profile individuals
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were taken over and this 17 year old
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shut down twitter hacked twitter and got
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onto the accounts of some of the most
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famous people
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on the planet count four was the account
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of elon musk
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count five was the account of kanye west
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we're here on case
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20 cf 8794
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state of florida versus graham ivan
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clark this is a kid who
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grew up in the digital world count 10
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was floyd mayweather
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count 11 was kim kardashian it's amazing
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that we have an international
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criminal living in our backyard graham
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clark
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is now a convicted criminal who's
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serving three years in prison
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for hacking twitter dozens of
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celebrities
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and stealing tens of thousands of
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dollars in bitcoin
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do you swear and affirm that all the
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testimony you give in this case will be
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the truth the whole truth and nothing
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but the truth
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yes he took a plea deal in march how do
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you plead to those charges
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while the kid genius celebrated his 18th
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birthday in jail
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his digital scam started at an early age
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but make no mistake this was a not
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an ordinary 17 year old he started his
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criminal career at 12 years old
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going on minecraft scamming people
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on minecraft getting their what's called
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capes which is
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your badge of honor in the minecraft
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world clark would sell the capes
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take the money but never deliver the
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goods he got away with it
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and then moved on to bigger scams
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since sim swap is when you take a cell
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phone number of somebody
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and then you use that cell phone to get
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into that person's digital world
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into their bank accounts they say clark
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flaunted as well that gaither high
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school
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designer watches and clothes and no one
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questioned it
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clark then tried his hand at role
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playing he would call a t
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in order to get someone's phone number
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thank you for calling
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call the provider of whoever had that
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account and pretend to be an employee
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get access through the terms and
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language that employees use
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international story with ties to a
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florida responsible for the
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fraud and hacking the twitter hacker
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pled guilty to 30 felony charges
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but his biggest criminal act caught the
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world's
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attention he would call one person to
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twitter and then call another person to
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twitter
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and eventually he got up the chain and
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twitter and made contact with somebody
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who had
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the code infiltrating an employee at
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twitter now clark had access to the
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twitter accounts of the most
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powerful people in the world with the
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ability to potentially
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shut down economies around the world
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potentially start world war three what
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did he do
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a simple bitcoin scam
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at the end of the day he acted like a
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kid these tweets
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invited twitter followers
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to join in a fake humanitarian
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fundraising campaign
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by sending cryptocurrency they say clark
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and two others
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would urge followers to donate funds
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with a false promise to
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double the donation in all investigators
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say graham stole
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a hundred and seventeen thousand dollars
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in virtual currency
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because after his arrest clark's digital
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associates
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zoom bombed a virtual court hearing
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posing as members of the media
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sorry i'm removing people as quickly as
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i can the whole thing was shut down
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after pornographic images appeared on
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the screen
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all right we're gonna we're just gonna
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i'm gonna end this call mr clark no
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questions
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questions okay i wish you the best of
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luck
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clark is now locked up at a youthful
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offender facility
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and is now banned from using a computer
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prosecutors say the one thing in life he
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really mastered but used it to do
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bad things count six was the account of
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bill gates
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count seven was the account of jeff
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bezos
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gloria gomez fox 13 news
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well as part of the plea agreement here
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clark's going to serve three years
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probation
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after his prison term and he's still got
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to get permission from his probation
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supervisor
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to use a computer or any electronic
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device at all
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