translated from Spanish: At least 7 women have reported stalker in Tinder in Mexico

“Luisa” met an Australian boy a few months ago from dating app Tinder. Tall, blond, he seemed sympathetic, until he became too insistent in seeing himself, despite coVID-19 confinement. When the traffic light in Mexico City changed to orange, she agreed to go meet him at his apartment, promising to respect some distance. He never thought how much his space and intimacy would be invaded: the Australian tried to touch her between his legs, pressing her that if he didn’t agree to kiss him maybe he was actually a man, a Canadian roomate walked naked in front of them, and told him that 10 men were on their way to have all sex with her.
Terrified, she managed to order a taxi and flee, not knowing very well how to process that experience, in addition to the shame of thinking that it was to meet someone online. But weeks later, other allegations of women like her who recounted encounters or systematic harassment of the same subject, Brad “Hunter,” sprouted on social media, though her real name is Bradley Tavis Fiddler.
The issue did not come into a media scandal: today there are at least seven girls in three states of the country— Mexico City, Puebla and Guanajuato, who have filed legal complaints throughout last week against them.
According to the local CDMX DEPUTY, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, who made the case public, the Australian and his partner can be investigated for trafficking in women in digital mode, because in addition to harassing girls until they convince them to date them even with automated methods, they record them in appointments or in intimate situations and that content not only disseminates it without their consent, but they use it to profit from it.

An exhortation was passed to the @SEGOB_mx. We ask to expel Bradley Fiddler #BradHunter the country and restrict his access if he wants to return.
Mexico will not be seen as a destination where sex tourism is allowed, abuse of women’s privacy will be persecuted and punished. pic.twitter.com/OyAngwfJh8
— Alessandra Rojo de la Vega (@AlessandraRdlv) August 19, 2020

Fiddler, also nicknamed “Bradicus,” and his Canadian roomate Justin Marc or “Justin Hunter,” have an “online seduction” course business for which they charge up to $897.
In the wake of the scandal in Mexico that they fled the country over—Brazil is believed to have been investigated by its own victims, far from hiding, now boast what happened as an achievement.
“We were so successful that we were in the news of a whole country of 126 million people. Death threats. Massive reports. Prohibition after prohibition. There’s a reason millions of people hate us, we have results,” it reads on their website under a Mexican flag, an image of a news story and the logos of the apps they’ve been blocked from, such as Tinder, Bumble, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
Show sexual harassment boasts as an art
“Learn the two-teacher online game,” they offer on their website, in which just entering are playing videos in which Brad and Justin are kissing with different girls.
In Brad’s presentation, he notes that he has been “in the game” for eight years and is an “MPUA”, which means Master Pick-Up Artist (translated as “league artist” master level). Justin boasts that he is “wingman” of millionaires and influencers.
All those terms and the business of giving courses on how to bring women to bed are not an invention of these two young people: they have existed for decades and there is a kind of community dedicated to what they supposedly understand as seduction, although it is rather harassment.
Animal Politico had access to a Telegram chat (a messaging system similar to WhatsApp but where participants can hide their phone number and identity) called “Game Mexico City” where foreigners who are or are going to come to Mexico share supposed tips about “the Mexican game”, that is, where it is easier to meet girls to approach them and try to have sex with them, cultural concepts to try to seduce a Mexican woman, or classist comments on how to have access to upper-class women “who are only seen in Polanco”.
The chat shared some news about the case of the Australian stalker, with criticism that he was rather being harassed by feminists, and approving the effectiveness of his method.
On their social networks, Brad and Justin presume, for example, that they will teach men algorithms for Tinder to “match” (throw a desire to meet the other person) to as many women as possible, even from various phones, and promise to also teach them how to automate WhatsApp messages to send an invitation to go out dozens of contactat the same time.
That’s what “Jaz” lived and realized something weird was going on. Having met Brad months ago in an app and gave him his phone, he recently picked her up again telling her he was in town. But then he found it with other profiles again on Tinder, in another similar app called Bumble, and received messages from various phones. He came up with the thought of telling his best friend and trying to play a prank by typing him from his phone, to which the Australian responded as if he were another woman and also began insisting and pushing for a date.
Baffled and after telling another friend the experience and that it turned out that he had lived the same, they began to investigate on the internet and found that Brad had allegations of harassment in countries such as Peru, Colombia, Brazil and others.
Because what he and his partner do and presume to teach is not just “seduce” based on hundreds of attempts and insistence. Very soon they move on to pressure, intimidation and even the threat, according to the account of victims who told their experience to Animal Político and whose names were changed for confidentiality or to the Deputy Red de la Vega.
One of them began to question the insistence and the high tone of Brad’s messages, to which she replied that if she were not fat, she would treat her with more respect. To another he told her that if I didn’t go out with him it was because she probably had sex with many more men and insulted her.
The end of it was when some threatened to report him on networks. Without even doing so, he responded with another threat, that of saturating his phones with penis photographs. And they started getting dozens of messages from different numbers insulting them, telling them they were doing it for Brad.
For all this, it is that the complaints filed now include sexual harassment and threats.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico City did not reveal details of the investigation, only commented that there is an open folder with five victims, and that for now each state is conducting its investigation, although if necessary there will be coordination with the other Prosecutors to which complaints were filed.
The National Migration Institute reported on August 22 that Fiddler was no longer in Mexican territory, but that mexican authorities would still continue to investigate allegations against this Australian.
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Original source in Spanish

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