Andrew Tate: Romanian teens explain how he approached them on social media

Daria Gusa was 16 and inactive astatine school, erstwhile she says she received a backstage connection connected Instagram from Andrew Tate, a high-profile influencer astir 20 years older than her.

"It conscionable work 'Romanian girl' and helium enactment immoderate flirty emoji," Daria told me. "I was confused due to the fact that I [only] had 200 followers, and it was a backstage account."

She is 1 of 2 teenagers who person described to the BBC however Andrew Tate and his member Tristan approached them online, seemingly utilizing a modular formula.

"It was evident we were high-school girls," Daria said. "We had our precocious schoolhouse successful our bio and everything. I deliberation helium was conscionable trying to find girls who were arsenic guiltless oregon naïve arsenic possible, successful my opinion."

She showed america a screenshot of the message, which she ne'er replied to. But she says immoderate of her friends did.

Daria, who's present astatine assemblage successful the UK, is the girl of a salient Romanian person and feels capable to talk retired publically erstwhile others person refused to spell connected the record.

The Tate brothers are presently successful 30-day custody successful Romania portion constabulary analyse allegations of rape and trafficking, which some men deny.

In video posted online Andrew Tate appears to instruct others connected however to attack women connected societal media.

"In my experience, what raises intrigue [and] inspires them to respond [is]… I inquire wherever they are," helium says successful the recording.

"Sometimes [for] intrigue, I'll enactment a wholly pointless emoji connected the end: immoderate cherries, oregon an orange, oregon a strawberry."

Since sharing her experiences, Daria says galore young men person accused her of lying.

"Even guys that I utilized to cognize from precocious schoolhouse are calling maine a liar for saying I erstwhile received a connection from Andrew Tate," she told me. "But [they] don't find thing unusual astir each the different allegations."

She says galore men of her property idolise Andrew Tate, who is 36.

"This is simply a large problem," she told me, "because we can't aftermath up successful 20 years with 2 cardinal Andrew Tates."

In publicity for his online courses, successful manipulating and exploiting women, Andrew Tate said: "I've been moving a web-cam workplace for implicit a decade… Over 50% of my employees were really my girlfriends astatine the clip and, of each my girlfriends, NONE were successful the big amusement manufacture earlier they met me."

He describes his occupation arsenic "to conscionable a girl, spell connected a fewer dates, slumber with her… get her to autumn successful emotion with me, to wherever she'd bash thing I say," the publicity continues, "and past get her connected web-cam truthful we could go affluent together."

He has antecedently said helium would ne'er day a pistillate implicit 25.

Gabriela (not her existent name) was 17 erstwhile she was contacted connected societal media by Andrew Tate's member Tristan - though she aboriginal pretended she was 19.

She's asked that we telephone her Gabriela to disguise her identity.

She showed maine his archetypal message, which read, "You're beautiful".

"I knew helium was utilizing the aforesaid attack with different girls," she said. "He ever starts the speech with the aforesaid nonstop line: 'You're beautiful'."

Gabriela said a person of hers received precisely the aforesaid opening connection from Tristan Tate.

In his video online, Andrew Tate says the operation '"you are beautiful" isn't atrocious arsenic an opening, and goes connected to outline what helium describes arsenic "a cleanable example" of a conversation.

After establishing wherever the pistillate is, Mr Tate advises men to ask: "Why bash I ne'er spot you? Where are you hiding?"

"99% of them accidental [they're] not hiding," helium says successful the recording.

This is precisely what appears to person happened successful the speech with Gabriela.

Screenshots of what is purported to beryllium her speech with Tristan Tate amusement his adjacent connection is precisely arsenic Andrew describes: "Feel I've seen you astir municipality earlier somewhere. Is that possible? Where person you been hiding?"

"It is likely," Gabriela replies. "I didn't hide."

Gabriela says helium invited her retired successful his car, and to a party, though she declined.

Screenshots of their speech bespeak that the speech ended abruptly aft she posted a video astir him connected societal media.

"Important radical volition ne'er privation to constitute you if they spot you bash worldly similar this. Just a affable warning," 1 of his past messages says.

There is thing amerciable successful the Tate brothers contacting girls of 16 oregon 17 online, oregon inviting them out.

But the grounds of these young women, on with Andrew Tate's comments online, suggest a pre-planned method for initiating contact.

The BBC has seen the screenshots that look to enactment the claims made by these women. The messages look to beryllium sent from handles whose username matches that utilized by Andrew and Tristan Tate earlier they were banned from the application.

However, the BBC has been incapable to independently verify their authenticity, oregon found whether the messages were sent by Andrew and Tristan Tate themselves oregon idiosyncratic moving connected their behalf.

The BBC has enactment these allegations to the Tate brothers done their lawyer, and asked for their response.

Social media updates person continued to look connected Andrew Tate's accounts, adjacent portion he's successful custody.

On Thursday, helium wrote that 5 radical had been authorised to sojourn him successful detention, including a 22-year-old American influencer called Adin Ross, with millions of followers, who said helium was flying to Romania connected Thursday.

No charges person yet been brought against the Tate brothers. Their 30-day detention play is acceptable to expire successful conscionable implicit a week.

For each the confessional videos and commentary connected their idiosyncratic life, the allegations against them stay unproven; immoderate grounds against them, veiled - for present - from nationalist view.