Internet Lure

The internet is a powerful tool that had made our world a little smaller and more informed. But for all its good, the Internet also has its faults. Just as you shouldn't trust every telephone caller, you must exercise an equal amount of caution regarding the Internet.

There are two ways the Internet poses a risk for children. First is communication. If you don't allow your child to talk to strangers on the telephone, you shouldn't allow them to communicate with them on the Internet either.

Since the growth of the Internet, sexual predators have found they are no longer restricted to just parks, school grounds and malls. Insttead, they can anonymously foam freely from chat room to chat room cruising for unsuspecting kids. Now, with millions of children using the Internet, law enforcement has become increasingly more challenged by predators using computers technology to victimize children.

(Children should never use their own name when talking on the Internet. Everyone they talk to on the Internet should be viewed as a stranger and therefore nothing personal should ever be divulged.)

Internet Lure Scenarios

Scenario 1

You're in a chat room talking to someone and he/she asks for your name and address. What would you do?

Scenario 2

You notice you have some e-mail. You find that it's e-mail from someone you've never communicated with before. He claims that he can get you a deal on the latest video games. What would you do?

Scenario 3

You're chatting online with one of your friends from school when suddenly someone else cuts in and identifies himself as a classmate. He asks both you and your friend to meet him at the corner store later that evening for a soda pop. What would you do?

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