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Online scams affect every one of us, however, some of the saddest and fastest growing crimes in the U.S.

There are many contributing factors.  Almost everyone, including Grandma and Grandpa have online devices where they can be reached by total strangers all hours of the day and night.  The year 2023 resulted in many third world countries receiving 5g high speed internet which gives immediate access to literally billions of people

We explore the world of online scams that exploit

If you or someone you know is a victim of an online scam, STOP all communication immediately.  Ask for help from a third party you trust. Never – ever give money to someone you meet online, regardless of how much they might care for them or you believe their story.  Save all communications and if there is potential threat or blackmail, take the communications to your local

Lately, it seems nearly every hour we hear about how A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is affecting our lives.  Trying to comprehend what that means to all of us on our day to day lives, and more important, how to protect our children while preparing them to live in a digitally altered world, could be one of the great challenges of all time. 

This week we will look at several cases where kids have been sextorted by digitally manipulated images.  We will explore the "Nudify" Websites used by application developers and the big tech companies to undress and

Artificial Intelligence will have many benefits in our lives.  However, no one can predict the down side such as receiving a blackmail letter asking for thousands

All of us are in denial about something.  Maybe we don't believe the scale when we weigh in, we are sure we made more money than we spent last year, or our kids

Denial is often a coping mechanism for victims of human trafficking or online social media exploitation.  The victims will often rationalize that it was their actions that resulted in violence or punishment, or being blackmailed. 

The most concerning denial is when leaders, legislators, and politicians create bills based on denial of reality or make promises they know they will never keep.  Our society is in the middle of an election season where we are faced with promises and claims we all know just could not be true.  And yet they are delivered with a straight face and seeming sincerity.  Is it denial or is it dishonesty or is it disingenuous? 

One of the greatest challenges to this young generation is how to discern what is true.  Raising children to be able to identify and verbalize their values is one of the greatest callings of all time. Being able to delineate between

The weather is hot, the political conventions are

In a recent conversation with a long-time friend, we

Over the past 25 years our world has moved from 24-7 news cycles, to artificial intelligence modifying texts, tweets, press releases and live interviews to persuade us to believe what they are selling.  The challenge is how to prepare this generation of young people to be able to listen to millions of outside input

Million Kids has been combating sex and labor trafficking in Southern California for many years. 

There are many factors driving this increase of

Recently, Senator Shannon Grove tried to get support for

Opal Singleton, Host of Exploited: Crimes and Technology shares with the audience about the many different types of sex and labor trafficking cases in Riverside County. These include family trafficking, female recruitment, gang trafficking, a pimp that recruited 28 minors from Moreno

Million Kids has been combating sex and labor trafficking in Southern California for many years. People often ask us if it is getting better or worse.  The answer is clear.  Human trafficking and online exploitation are more prolific, more violent, and more egregious than we have ever seen it.

How does a person end up as a victim of trafficking?

Seduced, Groomed and Recruited

            Gang Trafficking

            Pimp/Bottom Girl Trafficking

            Family Trafficking

            Some businesses are more prone than others i.e. trucking. 

Also Foreign National Trafficking - People from other countries  who are forced into trafficking once they arrive in the U.S.

Examples:

Massage parlors, skin care, aroma therapy

            Drop Houses, illegal pot grows

            Forced Marriage

            Domestic Servitude

We all watched in horror as a former President of the United States was wounded in an assignation attempt by a 20-year-oldyoung man with no history of violence who decided to take other people’s lives.  There were many other crimes that received lesser attention and yet they also altered other people’s lives.  Headlines sharing how sexually explicit AI Deepfakes were sent around high schools and ruining the lives of more than 50

Every one of these instances reminds us that, in this world, are people with little moral character, demonstrating corrupt human values and having total disregard for others.  At the same time, it occurs to us that global social media will be the primary factor in impacting our children’s attitudes about right and wrong, truth and propaganda, and moral clarity.

Now, more than any time in our history, it is critical

Most adults would be appalled and intimidated at the thought of posting a nude image of themselves online.  But honesty, for young people it is often seen as a routine act of socializing.  A research study conducted by a highly

But things have vastly changed in the past 36 months as the entire world has experienced a technology transformation unlike ever seen before in history.  With the capabilities of artificial intelligence to be used to

Million Kids has started fund raising for a specialized project to create short and to the point resources for teens and pre teens to understand how to protect themselves

It seems like nearly every day we hear another story of how A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is being used to in ways we never imagined.  It is hard to tell if that is good news or

Your host, Opal Singleton, discusses the impact on how crimes will be perpetrated using A.I.  We will also explore how law enforcement will investigate crimes, and possible ways that legislation will need to change to be able to prosecute underground criminal networks.

There are many great uses for Artificial Intelligence that

For instance, what happens when A.I. is used to sexually

Obviously our society must quickly understand the impact of how A.I. will change crime, crime solving and crime execution.  We MUST invest in advanced technologies for

There is much discussion these days about how Artificial Intelligence will be used to gather information and generate new information that will influence our thinking, get us to purchase goods, or create images that can be used to blackmail innocent individuals. The Million Kids Team constantly conducts research and we are in the process of creating short form videos and media that

In the course of that research, we discovered an article that talks about how foreign organizations are creating e-commerce websites for the sole purpose of gathering targeted data and sharing that data with government agencies that are hostile to the U.S.  It is important to understand how individuals, corporations and governments can seduce consumers of ALL ages into providing a vast amount of information through gaming and websites.  According to Cate Cadell of the Washington Post, "an example is the website TEMU -the

On this podcast, we will look at how innocent activities online give out significant amount of personal information and how that information can be used for targeted misinformation campaigns and other clandestine activities.