Cyber safety · lesson 9 of 24 · free

Strangers online — Cyber safety for kids

Online, anyone can pretend to be anyone — a name, a photo and an age can all be fake. Most people in games and chats are fine, but watch for red flags: asking for photos or personal details, offering free coins or gifts, asking you to move to a private chat, asking you to keep secrets, or wanting to meet. The safe response is always the same: say no, leave or block, keep the messages and tell a trusted adult.

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No, go, tell — “say no, leave the chat, tell a trusted adult”

  1. Red flags: secrets from parents, requests for photos, address or school, gifts or coins, moving to a private chat, meeting up.
  2. Safe responses: say no and leave, block and report, save the messages, tell a trusted adult.
  3. Never meet someone you only know online without a parent. You will not be in trouble for telling.

Use it for: Game chats, comment sections, chat apps and friend requests from people you have not met.

Worked example: 🚩 Red flag or ordinary message? “Don’t tell your parents about our chats, okay?” → a red flag

  1. Safe people do not ask children to keep secrets from their parents.
  2. So it is a red flag.

Check: Try it: agree with your family on one “safe word” or signal you can use if anything online makes you uncomfortable ✓

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