Online predators use communication tools like social networking, email, chat rooms, instant messaging and also use grooming process for personal meetings.

• By using social networking web sites :
  Social networking web sites are popular for expressing user's views, to post and share photos, and videos over websites. Online predators take advantage of these web sites and pretend to be a child and make online friendship and try to collect your personal details and gradually introduce sexual communications and engage you in sexual activities.

Tip : "Always take security measures like privacy settings and set the limited view of your profile."

• By using e-mail address :
  An online predator collect the email addresses of children and starts sending them photographs, links related to porn sites and try to abuse the children and insist child to involve in sexual communication by threats and makes children feel uncomfortable.

Tip : Ignore or delete the mails from unknown users.

• Through Chat rooms :
  Online predators join into chat rooms and start chatting with children and try to pretend as a child to collect the personal information, build trust and try to be a good friend by asking about child’s interests, hobbies, personal photographs, ask for private chats, offers gifts. Sometimes the predators will be very kind and affectionate toward a child and gradually introduce the sexual content in their conversation and ask a child to maintain secrecy by not informing parents. If a child doesn’t agree they may threaten and abuse them into submission.

Tip : It is suggested to hide personal information like interests, hobbies and family details to online friends.

• By Grooming Process :
  An online predator builds a false trust, relationships and breaks child’s resistance and tries for iface to face meeting.

Tip : Do not get lead by any strangers into changing your habilts and thoughts, Take your parents if you want to meet your online friend.