Information on Digital Awareness.

DIGITAL AWARENESS

Sometimes it can feel like sending nudes is happening everywhere, especially as new technology has made it easier to take, send and share images. While it might seem like everyone is sharing nudes, research in New Zealand shows it’s less common than you might think. Although a lot of young people have been asked for nudes, only a small number have actually sent one. Here is information from Netsafe on how to deal with this: https://www.netsafe.org.nz/nudes/

On a related theme, Netsafe has received numerous reports about an email scam where the scammer falsely claims to have hacked into their device and recorded intimate recordings of people using porn websites. The email threatens to release the video to their personal contacts unless the victim pays them a sum of money. In some versions of this scam, the scam email subject line also includes the victim’s password that they use (or have used in the past) for their online accounts. More information here: https://www.netsafe.org.nz/faketortian-email-scam/