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Omegle (oh·meg·ull) is a great way to meet new friends, even while practicing social distancing. When you use Omegle, you are paired randomly with another person to talk one-on-one. If you prefer, you can add your interests and you’ll be randomly paired with someone who selected some of the same interests.
To help you stay safe, chats are anonymous unless you tell someone who you are (not recommended!), and you can stop a chat at any time. See our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines for more info about the do’s and don’ts in using Omegle. Omegle video chat is moderated but no moderation is perfect. Users are solely responsible for their behavior while using Omegle.
You must be 18+ or 13+ with parental permission and supervision to use Omegle. See Omegle’s Terms of Service for more info. Parental control protections that may assist parents are commercially available and you can find more info at https://www.connectsafely.org/controls/ as well as other sites.
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An 11-year-old girl was coerced into sending sexually explicit images of herself to convicted pedophile Ryan Scott Fordyce on Omegle, a lawsuit claims.
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A chat site that encourages kids to “talk to strangers” is a dangerous destination that played a part in an 11-year-old girl being forced to become a predator’s digital sex slave, a multi-million dollar lawsuit claims.
Omegle, which randomly pairs up users for video and text chats, bills itself as a “great way to meet new friends” but has become a haven for pedophiles and voyeurs who use the site to watch people pleasure themselves, the federal suit filed Friday in Oregon claims.
The site, which has 66 million monthly users from across the globe, says kids 13 and older can use the platform with parental supervision and permission — but doesn’t have any system in place to ensure that users are being supervised, according to the $22 million suit.
The site also doesn’t require users to verify their age or name before using the product and doesn’t have any mechanism in place to prevent kids from being randomly matched with adults and vice versa, the lawsuit says.
In 2014, an 11-year-old girl only identified as “A.M.” logged on to Omegle after using it with friends during sleepover parties in hopes of meeting other middle schoolers like her.
Instead, she was connected to Ryan Scott Fordyce, a now-convicted Canadian pedophile who was in his late 30s at the time and is now facing 10 years behind bars.
Fordyce immediately started grooming the child and coerced her into giving him her contact information so they could keep in touch off the platform that allows users to be anonymous.
There, he asked her to send him nude images of herself and told her he could make her “feel better” and she needed to trust him because it was “integral to her ‘healing,’” even if his requests made her uncomfortable, according to the suit.
At first, Fordyce wanted to see images of the child’s “smile” but he soon started asking for snaps of her body and then started demanding specific “poses, props, positions and hairstyles,” the suit states.
The pedophile set deadlines for his twisted “assignments”, threatened to kidnap A.M. or harm her family and required her to be “at his beck and call” “at all hours of the day and night.”
While the interactions Fordyce and A.M. had didn’t happen on Omegle’s site, the platform continued to be a central part of their relationship because he forced her to use the website to recruit other children for him, the court papers claim.
The young girl was told she could stop sending Fordyce images at any time she wanted, but if she did, he threatened to leak the photos to her family and friends and told her she’d get in trouble with her parents, school and the police.
For three years, Fordyce held this threat over A.M.’s head. It wasn’t until January 2018, when members of a Canadian police force contacted her parents to tell them the pervert had been arrested for child pornography and images of their daughter had been found in his stash.
A.M. and her attorneys said Omegle is responsible for the abuse the child suffered because it’s where she met Fordyce and if they had employed mechanisms to prevent kids from matching with adults or other safety features, she never would’ve been abused by him.
“There’s no reason for a video streaming product that randomly pairs adults and children to exist at all, let alone without any real safety controls,” A.M., who is now 19, told The Post in a statement through her attorneys.
“This lawsuit is bigger than me, the damage has already been done to me, but my team and I are determined to protect the children after me that are just as vulnerable as I was. Nobody deserves this,” she said.
The suit claims Omegle is aware that predators are all over their website, but that it puts the onus on users to protect themselves.
“Predators have been known to use Omegle, so please be careful,” the website’s homepage stated through May 2021 before the line was taken down, right around the time A.M.’s attorneys sent a preservation letter to the company.
While that line has since been removed from the website, the suit states Omegle still “flouts the dangers of its product” on its homepage by acknowledging that users “may not behave appropriately” and their moderation “is not perfect.”
Omegle didn’t return a request for comment.
Lawyers Carrie Goldberg and Barb Long told The Post they were proud of their client for “channeling her pain to make the world safer for others.”
“Omegle’s popular use is for online sex and it welcomes underage users. The horror our client faced starting at age 11 when Omegle matched her with a child predator was a natural consequence of the inherent and foreseeable dangers of its product,” the attorneys said in a joint statement.
“May this be a bright burning warning to all tech companies that if you hurt children, we will hunt you down, and make you answer to your victims in court.”

Omegle: Children expose themselves on video chat site
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A BBC investigation has found what appears to be children exposing themselves to strangers on live video chat website Omegle.
The site claims to be moderated and has exploded in global popularity during the pandemic with millions of visitors a day - particularly in the US, India, Mexico and the UK.
It has become a TikTok trend, frequently visited by children, and international protection groups are increasingly concerned predators are using Omegle to gather so called "self-generated" abuse material.
The founder of the website, Leif K-Brooks, told the BBC that his site had increased moderation efforts in recent months.
TikTok says it has now banned sharing links to Omegle, and its safety teams have not found any harmful Omegle content on its platform.
Report by Joe Tidy and Woody Morris.
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You've heard of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter—but what about Omegle? The popular website lets users video chat with strangers one-on-one (yes, you read that right), and it comes with a host of safety concerns. We're talking about potential exposure to nudity, predation, scamming, and security threats… yikes. Here, we break down everything parents should know about Omegle, with tips for keeping children safe online.

Omegle is a free website that's easily accessible through a mobile or desktop browser. It connects users with anonymous strangers around the world, letting them have a one-on-one conversation through text or video. You don't need a profile or login credentials to access the site.

Chances are, this short description alone raises some red flags in parents—and with good reason. "I don't know of any parent who wants their kid to talk to strangers," says Titania Jordan, chief parenting officer of parental-control app Bark .

Visiting the plain-looking website won't make you feel any better. It clearly displays Omegle's tagline—"Talk to Strangers!"—and says you must be 18+ to use the site (or 13+ with parent's permission). It also gives a concerning message: "Predators have been known to use Omegle, so please be careful."

When you're chatting with a stranger, Omegle displays two webcam screens (yours and the strangers) that automatically broadcast video. There's also a text chat that resembles instant messaging. You can end the conversation whenever you'd like, and Omegle will connect you with another random stranger .

Although Omegle was founded in 2009, it has recently surged in popularity among children. You can partly blame TikTok; influencers often connect with their fans on Omegle and share their experiences. Children tend to use Omegle at sleepovers or other group settings. They might be also drawn to the website during the pandemic, as social distancing measures may make them feel isolated at home.

It's true that users must be over 18 without parental permission, but reality is that children don't always follow these rules. According to Jordan, Omegle's warnings are "not an effective barrier. It might protect them legally, but it's not good enough." Plus, she stresses that Omegle doesn't verify the age of its users. There's essentially nothing stopping your 8-year-old son or 12-year-old daughter from using it, as long as they have access to an internet browser.

Omegle's homepage offers a few different chat options, though they're not clearly defined. All options let users chat one-on-one with strangers, either through text messages or dual webcam displays. Here's some information about each of them.

Adult: When you click the "Adult" button, a pop-up screen warns users that they're "about to go to a site with sexual material," and that it's only for those 18 and older. (Note, however, that it's entirely possible for kids to still access these chat settings because there's no age verification, says Jordan.)

Unmoderated: Also for adults 18+, this section displays a similar warning: "Because this section is not moderated, you are more likely to encounter sexual behavior."

Video: This section doesn't display any pop-up warnings, and according to Bark , "it's not intuitive that this is the least dangerous way to use the platform." Plus, the "Video" setting isn't guaranteed to be kid-friendly; you could still encounter nudity or other explicit material.

Text: This setting lets users communicate through text-based messages; it resembles instant messaging. Text chatting might appear safer than video chatting, but your child could still encounter scammers and predators. Plus, according to pro-consumer website Comparitech , users can "save and receive a sharable link to the chat," which saves a transcript containing IP addresses, ID cookies, and other personal information.

Spy (Question) Mode: Users can ask a question, then observe two strangers talking about it.

College Student Chat: After entering their student email address, college students are connected with others enrolled in a university.

Before starting a chat, Omegle also gives users the options to specify their interests. Omegle will try matching you with random people who share these interests "instead of someone completely random," according to the site.

Thanks to its anonymous nature and lack of security settings, Omegle comes with plenty of safety problems. Here are some of the most concerning issues.

"It's very likely your child will encounter sexual content on this platform," says Jordan. It could be nudity, sexual acts, inappropriate language, or pre-recorded explicit videos. In some cases, users might try to persuade others (including minors) to perform sexual acts as well.

Omegle clearly states that predators have been known to use the site. Because of its anonymity, a teenager could be paired with an older adult. The adult might take advantage of the situation by "grooming" the child—and this could eventually lead to a real-life relationship. "Children can be sexually abused without ever having been in the room with an adult," says Jordan.

Omegle has its fair share of con artists. According to Jordan, strangers could win your child's trust and trick them into giving out personal information—credit card numbers, passwords, addresses, the name of their school, etc. Naturally, these actions could lead to fraud, scamming, identity theft, stalking, or other safety issues.

On Omegle, children might think their behavior is private. But it's possible for strangers to screen record video chats or save text conversations. The stranger can do whatever they want with these items, such as share them with others, publish them online, or use them as blackmail.

It's easier to bully behind a screen. Strangers might ridicule your child for their looks or mannerisms, and this cyberbullying could have long-term consequences to their mental health.

Users don't need a profile, registration, or login information to use Omegle. The site also doesn't verify ages, and despite the warnings on its homepage, kids can still easily access the chatting services. Omegle doesn't have any parental controls or privacy settings.

Some kids might get confused from the different buttons on the Omegle homepages. Others might even be tempted by the "Adult" settings. "Every kid is curious in some way, shape, or form," says Jordan. "It's less awkward to click a link and see what comes up," as opposed to talking to parents about adult topics .

Jordan says that Omegle is doing the "minimum amount" to keep their users safe, and it's up to parents to monitor their child's behavior online. "We always encourage parents to evaluate what technology and apps they use, and to look at the purpose," says Jordan. She adds that parents should take the following steps to protect their little ones from Omegle.

Talk openly to kids. "You have to talk to your children about [the safety risks of Omegle]," Jordan says. "It's not comfortable because it involves sexuality and predation, but you have to be forthcoming with them." You might explain, for example, that they could see nudity, be groomed by a predator, or accidentally give up compromising information.

Don't condemn sexuality overall. When talking about the dangers of sexual content, be careful not to paint it in a bad light. "If they know about sex, say it's not a bad thing," says Jordan, "Sexual curiosity is normal, but the way Omegle presents it is not healthy or productive for you."

Build up your children. Don't punish your child for expressing an interest in Omegle, because it's natural to be curious about these types of things. "Explain that good kids can make bad choices, and smart kids can fall prey to tricky people," says Jordan.

Take appropriate steps if your child has already used Omegle. If your child has already used Omegle, proceed with caution. Let them know it's normal to be bothered by explicit content they might have encountered. Jordan recommends not punishing them for raising concerns, but offering support if they need it (either through a parent or therapy ). "If they sent an [inappropriate] photo or video, get them help," adds Jordan. Involve law enforcement if you feel it'
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