As someone very aware of what you should and shouldn’t do online, I was shocked today to get a phone call from one of my daughters, telling me that she’d just had a text and phone call from someone claiming to be her dad (and the person named her). Unless I’d been sleep-texting or calling, I assumed that it hadn’t been me that called her.
After a bit of digging I found out that she’d been (stupidly) putting her mobile number on some of the social networking sites she uses. Hey presto, some paedo/whatever finds her profile and thinks it’s his birthday seeing a phone number and so decides to ring her up pretending to be me.
Luckily she quickly realised it wasn’t me and hung up and let me know, and she now knows (even though she’s been told countless times) how stupid it is for kids to put their personal details (phone, address, school etc.) on these types of sites.
As some of you will know, I specialise in helping companies/people be highly visible online. The word of warning here though is that the sickos of this world don’t need my types ofkills to find exactly what they’re looking for because the innocence of children does it for them.
Andy – Custwin
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