Has your child ever been approached online?

We got my son (10) a Fitbit for his birthday earlier this year, and he’s been wearing it pretty regularly.

This afternoon (some 6 mos. later) he asked if he could install the Fitbit app on his iPod so he could sync it with Apple Health. Didn’t really think the app had a big risk potential.

Tonight I see him playing on the iPod more than usual - I grab it and find him chatting with some random guy in the Fitbit app. He’s been through the online safety course with the Cub Scouts, but didn’t recognize this as something he should be weary of.

Creep is probably late 20’s, early 30’s - profile picture is him in a mirror with no shirt on.

My son had created a profile picture that clearly shows him to be a minor.

This fricker asked my son where he lives... what he’s doing for Thanksgiving... if he was being safe... several questions about his pets... and then, if he had, or could create a Google Hangouts account “so he could get to know him better”.

Obviously we took his Fitbit and iPod away, and will be deleting the app. Not sure if there is anything else that should be done? Is there someone to report creeps like this to?

And while we were looking over his chat logs, requests from two other people came in wanting to be “friends” on Fitbit.

There are some sick bastards out there...