Fighting Internet Predators

There is a website called http://www.perverted-justice.com. What they do is have volunteer contributors that pose as underage children in chatrooms. Posing from a variety of ages (standard ages are 10-15), these contributors simply go into chatrooms with fake online screennames and wait for predators to instigate conversation with them. They strike up conversations with the people who PM them typically these people range between 25-60 years old: so much older than the underage personas (which range from 10-15) that it gives cause for alarm. The vast majority of these chatters express an interest in physically meeting our underage personas, even luring them away from family and friends to a discreet, private location for a rendezous of an explicitely sexual nature.

They then post all information in the chat logs to the Perverted-Justice.com database (not before careful verification proceedures to ensure authenticity). We feel exposing these "wannabe pedophiles" illustrates for others the problem of predators and internet pedophilia, and helps raises community awareness.

In the database - they post pictures and the chat conversation. I honestly could not look or read any more as it made me sick.