Report any attempts to lure your child into a face-to-face meeting to your local law-enforcement officials immediately. They will bring in other law enforcement agencies as needed. If you find that your local law enforcement agency isn't taking this seriously, you can contact your local country's tipline or hotline, or you can contact WiredSafety.org's Cyber911 Team and we will reach out to law enforcement with you.

Here are two places where you can report problems:

1-800-BE-ALERT (1-800-232-5378) is U.S. Customs' twenty-four- hour hotline, and it will route your complaint to the right law enforcement agency. (Many states are also setting up similar tip lines. You should contact your state attorney general to find out whom you should contact locally.)

One of the best tip lines in the world is the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline, a national tip line established by the U.S. Congress. The CyberTipline is accessible by telephone at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) as well as online at www.cybertipline.com. They get thousands of child-exploitation tips a year, and turn over more than 2,000 tips of child pornography, alone, to U.S. Customs quarterly.

The Center's website is www.missingkids.com. They were formed under special federal legislation, and the tips sent to them are officially shared with the FBI Innocent Images Unit and U.S. Customs' Cybersmuggling unit, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and, in many cases, local law enforcement.

Other tip lines worldwide have modeled themselves after the National Center's CyberTipline. And while they have some of the most devoted and talented professionals of any child-safety group, National Center wouldn't be National Center without Ernie Allen, a visionary when it comes to children's safety.

Parry Aftab is a noted online safety and privacy expert, and Executive Director of WiredSafety.org