The police used Mxit to set up a trap for the man by posing as a teenage girl and luring him out into the open where he was arrested and charged with the girl’s abduction and sexual assault.
Even though users are anonymous by default in Mxit chatrooms and are advised by Mxit to remain anonymous, users do still identify themselves to other users or give away enough information to identify them. Mxit has been looking at ways to make their service safer for its younger user base but the big concern is always ensuring that these users are educated not to give out personal information to strangers on the Mxit service. Doing so is pretty much the same as telling people they meet in the street who they are and where they live and we all know what our parents taught us about talking to strangers …
Tags: mxit, police, sexual predators, personal information, chat rooms
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