Ukraine is warning its teenagers of nefarious social media tactics Russia is using to enlist unsuspecting users into commiting acts of terrorism, the New York Times reported Saturday.

For the past year, Russia has been targeting the nation’s youth via social media apps such as TikTok, Telegram and Discord, offering large sums of cash to perform seemingly innocuous tasks.

Ukraine’s top internal intelligence agency (SBU) has been conducting seminars to instruct their teenagers on how to spot the signs, including a video that shows stacks of cash followed by the graphic, “How not to fall into the trap of Russian intelligence services.”

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