What should you do if someone online ask to meet you in person?

Answer 1

Think about whether you would like to meet them too. But before that, think about whether you can trust them. You've never seen the person before and you don't know whether they are who they claim to be over the internet. If you've chatted using webcams before and have seen him or her, you can be comparably sure they are who they say but you still don't know anything about their motives for asking to meet you.

As golden rules:

- Don't go for a meeting with someone you've never seen. Exchange pictures before.

- Make sure the person in the pictures is really the one you're talking to. Tell them to hold a piece of paper in the picture with something written on it that you tell them. (Make it something you couldn't type on a keyboard, like a drawing... because otherwise they could photoshop it)

- Only agree to meet if you really want to. Don't let them talk you into it.

- Only meet if you trust this person.

And also:

- meet up somewhere public where other people are around

- take a friend or parent with you, or even better make it a meet up with several people who you know already