A new threat to cyber-security has been revealed this week after several cases of vulnerable teenage girls being duped by smitten adolescent boys masquerading as predatory middle-aged internet groomers. ‘You just don’t think it’s going to happen to you,’ sobbed Chantal Myers, 14, whose online relationship with ‘Sugar Daddy’ took a terrible turn when she agreed to meet him after months of suggestive messages. ‘He made me promise not to tell my mum and dad and that it would be our ‘special’ little secret when we met in the woods behind my school. But when I turned up, instead of a pervy older bloke waiting for me behind a tree, it was Gareth ‘Stiffy’ Taggart, who always has a boner in Economics, waiting to download his ‘Chantal Rocks’ playlist onto my iPhone. I feel so exploited.’
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Posted: Nov 2nd, 2009
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