UK men offered £10k to pose as 'dads' in visa scam.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-655564British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women's babies, a BBC investigation has found.
They are being offered up to £10,000 to add their names to birth certificates - enabling a child to get UK citizenship and giving mothers a residency route.
Scammers are using Facebook to tout for business and claim to have helped thousands of women in this way.
Facebook says such content is banned by its rules.
The investigation, by BBC Newsnight, found that the fraud is happening in different communities around the UK.
It uncovered agents operating across the UK who find British men to be fake fathers.
A researcher went undercover, posing as a pregnant woman who was in the UK illegally, and spoke to people offering these services.
One agent, who went by the name Thai, told her he had multiple British men who could act as fake fathers and offered a "full package" for £11,000.
