Safe Surfing
Tips to keep you and your family safe online When communicating with someone you do not know in real life, you should be cautious of some common tactics used by online predators to win your trust and create a false sense of security. The following are examples of what is called “grooming” Does the person you’re chatting with. Make you feel ‘special’ Give you excessive compliments? Make promises of gifts and/or money? Make you believe that they understand you like no one else does? Say you are the only one for them – that no one else matters? Offer you ‘real love’ or say you are their ‘soul mate?’ Seem to have everything in common with you? Make you feel bad if you are not available to chat?
