The Momo 'suicide game' is coming back even stronger in 2019. Or is it? Fear of fear is helps media to drive clicks and drives parents to panic. Read the truth behind The Momo Challenge.
“I’m from Mexico and yesterday that image became popular on Facebook in a post telling you to message a phone number. That number has the pic as a profile photo. Idk if I can share the number here.”that they had initially found the image on Facebook. The original Facebook post, which seems now to have been long removed, challenged readers to message a number, while at the same time warning that messaging the number carried significant risk.
The existence of “Momo” spread very quickly through sites like 4chan and YouTube with several videos uploaded in June and July of 2018 of people attempting, and succeeding in contacting “Momo” over WhatsApp.linked something they called “the Momo Game” with the suicide of a 12 year-old girl in Ingeniero Maschwitz and noted that police were investigating18-year-old teenager, whom the victim is believed to have met on social media, and whom the police were yet to locate.
Parents, help each other by checking into the facts before you share scare stories online, rather than our children being scared it seems it is more the parents in a panic over something which appears to be yesterday’s news. Encourage open communication with your kids about the threats, dangers and crucially the opportunities available online.
We are never going to stop kids from telling each other ghost stories but we can make sure we give them a place to go when they are scared.As Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, I have been involved in the information technology industry for over 25 years and seen a wealth of development both for better and for worse over that time. I am constantly on the lookout for how the latest infrastructu...
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