Internet Grooming

Internet grooming is a rising problem here in the west, it usually involves young girls and boys getting contacted by an anonymous person on chat rooms or even on blogs, the people making contact usually pretend to be of a similar age to the victims and start grooming their prey slowly and over time they get their confidence the victim gives out his or her Email then it progresses into exchanging phone numbers and even addresses. On many occasions it has been found that these people are usually older males or paedophiles, some were caught as they met their victims as their activities were monitored by the police.

Some of these men do contact young vulnerable women, deceiving them and pretending to be falling in love with them, many women had thought they found an ideal partner just to be heartbroken or even worse...

The reason I am writing this is because I have heard that this problem is beginning to surface in Libya, my advice is do not give your personal details (Emails, Phone numbers) to any stranger that contacts you online and remember, these strangers are not going to ask you for your personal details straight away, it will happen after a time when they think that you started to trust them. If you have young children that go online, please do monitor their activities within reason, take a lesson from the appalling incidents that happened in the west and do not think that this is a problem that only happens else where, it is happening in Libya as well as any other country on the planet.

Take care of yourself and of your family and may Allah protect everyone.

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Have a Happy & Safe Mailud everyone