Organised crime syndicates are using encrypted digital platforms to recruit vulnerable teenagers with intellectual disabilities, low IQ and no criminal history, "conning" them to commit serious crimes, according to a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist.Those crimes include fire-bombings, home invasions and kidnappings that have been occurring across Melbourne.Dr Adam Deacon told 7.30 that criminals are preying on minors who might be isolated or struggling with neurodevelopmental challenges, convincing them to carry out high-risk crimes for money, via encrypted platforms."They're luring them into behaviour that they otherwise would not even have considered, if not for the attraction of money, some sort of level of notoriety and this sort of false sense of respect and regard."I think at a level they [teenagers] know what they're doing, why they're doing it [But] I don't think they really have a level of sophistication."Dr Deacon, who meets with over a dozen youth offenders a week, said criminal syndicates are finding and enlisting teens online."The children seem to be recruited through social media and applications," he said."Encrypted apps [such as] Telegram and Discord and Signal and the like, but also through gaming, kids playing Fortnite and Roblox and the like