How To Counter The Influence Of "death Groups"

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Driving to suicide via the Internet is not all that fresh news to the post-Soviet space. For the first time, I listened to the analysis of a similar story as the Russian coordinator in a training project of the International Association of Professionals Working Against Child Abuse at a seminar in a Tartu court. The analysis is good because we relished not only the texture of such cases, and how to resist them. So what is it worth talking to an adult with a child. What wouldn't end up in a story like this? You need to follow fairly simple safety rules on the social network. Read the text to the end, where they are listed.

But let's take it in order. I heard something like the following …

One Estonian boy logged into a local English-speaking dating server. Filled out my form. And he began to look at strangers. He especially liked the page of a woman from Spain. He returned to her several times. Considered a long gallery of her photos, where she willingly posed in seductive poses or naked.

Imagine his surprise when, a few days later, he received a message from her. It seemed that she was not nearly embarrassed by the fact that she was communicating with a schoolboy. She willingly shared her rich experience. She frankly wrote about her relationships with adult men. And she confessed that they repulse her with their rudeness and depravity. Conversely, she likes soft, gentle and innocent teenagers. After all, with all this, they are capable of such a hot passion! The letters became more and more frank. And she began to ask from reciprocal frankness. I found out the real name of the guy. Received some nude photos from him.

And then disappeared for a while …

Suddenly, a laconic message about the gift came. The gift was waiting for him at the express service. And it was not even issued for a passport, but after the "password". The box turned out to be a webcam, an envelope of thick paper.

In the envelope there was a stack of photographs where, with the help of light Photoshop, the guy was depicted having sex with a middle-aged Scandinavian. And also a printout of his personal page in local "classmates", a list of friends and relatives to whom these photos will be sent. And his favorite forums, where photos will appear soon.

Nothing is needed to prevent this. Get in touch in ICQ, exactly three hours after receiving the parcel.

With horror, he realized that the time had passed. After all, he did not unpack the gift right away:(It would seem that he stopped at this moment. Naively forget about it as a bad joke. Or decide how to get rid of the dirt in practice. In the end, honestly tell the adults how, out of naivety and impulsiveness, you got into an unpleasant story. Everything could have gone differently …

But the calculation was accurate. He opened the messenger and found the Spanish flu online. She began to complain to him that she was, like him, in an unpleasant story because of their love. She's also being blackmailed. Moreover, she is not just frightened, but actually taken hostage. They torture them, forcing them to do various painful and shameful things.

Only he can ease her suffering. All you need to do is pose in front of the webcam. And she will be there, admire him. So you can make good money. And this will bring their meeting closer, about which she continues to dream.

And he agreed. Only the promised salvation with every step turned into new portions of compromising evidence, with which they continued to frighten him. Alternately with checks and "gifts" from the sex shop, which were paid from him. And in order to break this chain faster, each time the task became harder, more painful and shameful.

I do not know at what moment he could not stand it. Perhaps, when the affectionate persuasion of the Spaniard began to intersperse with curses addressed not only to stupid, rude macho, who value only physical strength and attractiveness, but also to snotty squishies, unable to resist someone else's will. As well as lustful bitches-mothers who view children as a serious complication of a venereal disease, stupid fathers, for whom a daily can of beer replaces communication with a child, and other misanthropy that can plunge not only a teenager into depression.

Or he heard in the Skype headset instead of a passionate female whisper, with a Spanish accent, a trembling male, confused English. And maybe worse.

I hope he could not survive the disappointment that his partner was excited not by his skinny charms, but by the absolute power over the defenseless victim. And not that killing yourself in front of the camera was another "task"

So what is it worth talking to an adult with a child. What wouldn't end up in a story like this? You need to follow fairly simple safety rules on the social network.

1) Do not use the same nickname and password everywhere (easily calculated)

2) When communicating on the Internet, do not give your new acquaintances your phone number

3) Do not advertise your personal data (address, place of study)

4) not meeting strangers in private

5) Carefully and slowly reduce the distance when meeting. Do not switch to instant means of communication (messengers, Skype, etc.), if you do not know this person, YOU do not have his verified personal data, etc.

6) Tell parents or other adults about their "adventures" and other risky behavior on the Internet (your aggression and against you (insults, slander, threats)

7) Master relaxation skills

I have been propagandizing for a long time " three T ", which, as it turned out, are suitable not only for teenagers" stupid, slow down, chuckle ", as I immediately came up with back then. More details:

tupi (ask for details and rational explanations)

talk (keep in touch, don't go into isolation)

brake (do not prohibit, but ask to postpone dangerous and irreversible actions)

This is the same translation from English as the mournful texts in most "death groups". In English, the triad sounds like: Stop! Block! Tell!

And, probably, it is easy to google.

And for the residents of Russia, I remind you that in Russia there is a round-the-clock all-Russian line of the Children's Trust Phone 8-800-2000-122, the call to which is anonymous and free when calling even from a mobile phone. And quite adults can call her. For Russian-speaking residents of other countries, I recommend typing the word "Children's helpline" in the "Communities" section of the VKontakte social network.