Setting the Trap for Internet Predators

Protect Your Family by using Internet criminals tricks and secrets against them! Learn how cyber criminals talk, what they say and how they say it. You'll know exactly what your family is up against by reading how these episodes unfold lightning fast every single day in cyberspace. From Peabody Award winning investigative journalist Stephen Dean, this book goes inside his highly successful Internet investigations. He's been reporting on cyber crimes since 1996 and he's been sending predators to prison since 2001, starting with a school teacher who admitted he only became an educator because kids arouse him. This is hard-hitting perspective you can't find anywhere else. The criminals' tactics exposed in these pages are chilling and unique. *Police closed the books on a rape case, but the 14-year-old girl's parents contacted this author. Only then was the attacker sent to prison. Why is law enforcement so under-equipped? *A man stumbles onto abusive pictures while trying to share music and game files online. Police wouldn't respond, so he contacted this author and the child pornographer was arrested within hours. He's locked up, but the issues raised by this case remain. *How did a creep invade a family's home and spy on them and even listen to them when they thought they were alone? What happens when federal agents get involved and what does it mean if your family is victimized this way? *What are the most dangerous places for kids on the Internet? You'll read exactly where the predators are prowling and what they look for. Plus, what they do when they find it. *This author was one of the first journalists in the country to pose as a child in the chat rooms in 2004, exposing the doctors, professionals, and other creeps when they arrived for their illicit meetings with kids. He's helped other police departments and school districts with their own safety measures ever since. This author stands alone with one badge of honor. He changed the World Wide Web overnight. In 2005, you'll read how his expose of certain chat rooms led the nation's most widely used Internet service to pull the plug on hundreds of chat rooms, a move that the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said would certainly save lives. The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times and even the China Daily News were among the worldwide headlines that credited this author with cleaning up the net. Those chat rooms are gone, but you'll read where the predators are now looking instead. This powerful book is written in plain English. You don't need to be a computer expert to understand how your family can be protected from these criminals.