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SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WKRG) — A man known as the “TikTok Trickster” has had his bond raised to $500,000.
UPDATE: ‘Victim and subject’ knew each other, Mobile Police Department says
According to Spanish Fort Police Chief John Barber, the bond amount was raised from $15,000 for Brenton Fillers.
Fillers is accused of scamming women across multiple states for years and using over 30 different aliases in 30 years.
In 2023, a woman in Spanish Fort had her car stolen by a man she met on TikTok named Jason Mitchell. Through facial recognition, officers found that the man was Fillers using an alias…