For now, I plan on reporting on the uptick of spam/scam text messages. Recently, there has been a surge of fake texts where the end goal of the scammer is to get the victim to invest in something. Historically scam calls have disproportionately affected those who are older.
For audio, I can have the bustling of the school as a background noise. Then while the interviewee is explaining what texts they got or what they responded I can have the tapping and sounds of a mobile keyboards.
I would like to ask the interviewee’s questions about the scams they have received. Such as was the scammer pretending to be a reliable company/person, or was a new identity.
Since this is just the draft pitch, I really want to find ways to make this into more of a “story” which I have never done before. In order to do this, I plan on mixing in statistics and information from existing reports about these scams and what they result in.