Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35196587-20181231023946/@comment-34532495-20190110203840

Salt29 wrote: Lovely Kat,

Your darling grandbabies should be just fine (Boops, or any smarty we have please correct me if I mispeak). Hey, m.e.! I doubt that I'd qualify as a smarty, but there is a creepy type of identity theft called "digital kidnapping", a term usually used when someone takes photos of a minor from the parents' social media pages and reposts them as if the child is theirs. Some apparently do it as part of some fantasy life they want to live as the parent of a healthy, beautiful child. But some use the photos of "their" darling child to get close to other children for nefarious purposes.

Also, parents usually post family members' names, including the child's, along with enough info about their lives that someone with ill intent can do a little online research and piece together exactly where the family lives. Then we are talking about the possibility of real kidnapping, not just digital.

I'm not trying to freak anyone out and I think it's extremely unlikely that that would happen from photos posted here, but it goes to show just how far some people will go and why you have to be extra vigilant!

Cathleen (a.k.a. Ms Paranoia 😂)