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Protect your child from cybercriminals!
We live in an age when everyday life is unthinkable without the Internet. And if adults understand the risks of its active use, then children may unwittingly become victims of cybercriminals. There are even guides online for them explaining how to behave with a child in order to extract their selfish goals from communication. The hunt for baby souls on the Internet is in full swing. And fighting this scourge is not easy, it can affect everyone. We suggest you familiarize yourself with the basic rules for the protection of minors from grooming.
What is grooming?
The word "grooming" comes from the English "grooming", which means "care", "caring". Online grooming is the establishment of friendly and trusting contact with a child on the Internet in order to obtain intimate photos or videos of the child for subsequent blackmail, extortion of money or intimate pornographic materials. Thus, a child or teenager becomes involved in the production and distribution of pornography. And a meeting "in real life" can end in violence or sexual exploitation. At the same time, the perpetrator and the victim do not necessarily live in the same locality, they may be from different cities, even countries.
How does a crime happen?
Cybercrime is a multi–step process, the first stage of which involves recruiting a victim for further exploitation. The Internet is the most popular among criminals, and they work according to a well-established scheme: they register under the guise of teenagers, fill the page with the most plausible information, send out friendship requests, can send to hundreds of children, and wait for which of them to respond. Criminals visit those chat rooms that are most popular among children. They are aware of the latest trends in the world of online games, fashion, music or sports, which allows them to disguise themselves as a child or a person who loves children very much and shares their interests. A criminal can act most effectively towards primary school-age children, who are more naive and vulnerable, in order to focus their persecution on them later.
Victims can be targeted and targeted. Then children with open access to the page are at risk. According to the posts and profile, the criminal identifies a lonely child with a lack of attention and care. The abuser declares the same interests, encourages and praises the child. In general, he behaves like a friend: so that the child "pecks", feels special and needed. Communication can last from one evening to several weeks. When contact is established, an offer of a meeting "in real life" follows.
How to keep children and teenagers safe?
Talk to the child. Explain that on the Internet, people often turn out to be not who they say they are. Children tend to think that social media is a popularity contest, so the more people they have in their followers, the better. Before accepting a friend request, especially from those your child does not know, you need to make sure that the account is not fake. (A fake page is an account created on behalf of another person). Checking and analyzing suspicious individuals never hurts. You can become an advanced parent and also register on social networks, add your child as a friend to be able to see who he is "friends with". But a ban on social media and total control of correspondence is not the best way out.
If you are not an active Internet user, ask your child about his virtual friends. Arrange for his virtual acquaintances to remain virtual. Actual meetings should take place under your supervision or with your permission.
Share friendly tips on how to behave online. Explain why you should only communicate with real friends and acquaintances, and avoid talking to strangers on the Internet, especially on intimate and provocative topics. A child should understand why it is forbidden to send their erotic photos, even to friends or acquaintances. The account of the person to whom the intimate picture was sent may be hacked and used by another person.
Explain that online rapists politely coax or intimidate children to keep their communication private. This is how criminals take care of their safety: the fewer people involved in the case, the more likely they are to involve a child in the production of pornographic materials, sexual exploitation - crimes related to human trafficking. Arrange for the child to tell you about any unpleasant situations related to online communication. To do this, there must be a trusting relationship so that he can freely talk about everything that worries him. Be on the same wavelength with the child, be interested in his hobbies, do not ignore his problems. When discussing the topic of grooming, it is necessary to maintain a non-confrontational way of communication so that the young user is not afraid to ask for help in the future.
Protect your personal data. Even if online communication has led to a virtual friendship, you cannot be sure who is on the other side of the screen. And sharing information about yourself with a five-minute virtual acquaintance is the same as opening all your cards to a random passerby on the street. Both in real life and on the Internet, your personal data must be protected.
Create an anonymous profile. Some sites require you to fill out a profile in order to access the features of the resource. Think about it, is there really a need to provide your real data? It is better to use a pseudonym, specify the city or country instead of the exact address, and do not enter your phone number and email address. If you cannot register without this data, then enable the "hide data" option.
Use technical safety measures.
Install parental control programs, as well as other means of blocking, filtering, and monitoring your child's online activities. They will help you separate malicious software, understand which sites your child has visited, and what he or she has been doing there. With the help of special programs, such as Kaspersky Safe Kids, you can track the list of friends and messages in the child's feed, as well as contacts with whom he communicates via phone calls and SMS. Using Youtube for Kids, you can protect your child from watching unwanted videos. There is a good browser that not only protects against malicious content, but also advertising and various banners. This is the Yandex browser. In addition, special browsers for children have appeared. They are already specially configured. For example, "Gogul".
What should I do if this happens?
- Stay calm. You should support the child and discuss an action plan together. First, listen carefully to the child's account of what happened. Find out information about the perpetrator, their relationship history, whether there were meetings in real life, and whether there is an agreement on them. Write down all the facts.
- After collecting information from the child's words, proceed to the technical means. Go to the pages of the website where your child was, look at the list of his friends, highlight recent new contacts, and read the messages. Take a screenshot of the screen and save the information you found.
- Contact the police if the incidents include criminal acts: threats, blackmail, demands for money, sexual harassment, involvement in the production of porn and sexual exploitation.
You don't have to deal with this situation on your own, it's the police officers who should be investigating crimes of this kind. Even if you think that this will not help, that the perpetrator will not be found, put aside your doubts and think about the fact that if the villain is not stopped, other children may suffer.
- Visit the website http://kids.pomogut.by /
Here, children who have suffered from online violence, as well as parents and other witnesses, will receive informational, psychological, or legal support. We will answer your questions from 8:00 to 20:00. To get psychological help, call 8 801 100 16 11 (24/7) or 8 801 201 55 55 (from 8:00 to 20:00). It's safe — free and anonymous.
It's possible to use the Internet in a beneficial way. Various trainings, video lessons, master classes, websites for learning a particular craft or art — all this is good and useful, but in moderation. Don't forget to return to the real world!
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