A threatening message sent via WhatsApp is once again causing fear and uproar among children!
Once again, a chain letter with a brutal, frightening voice message is being spread via the WhatsApp messenger service. A computer voice threatens to kill the recipient and his mother if the message is not forwarded to 20 people within 20 minutes. The threats are so specific and detailed that children continue to send the message out of fear. Unfortunately, these chain letters with threats of nocturnal visits and depictions of cold death threats achieve exactly what they are obviously intended to achieve: fear !
However, the current audio chain letter, which comes in a variety of forms and designs, has terrible content!
It's no longer just about spreading the word, it's actually about creating and spreading fear. The scary messages and threats are concrete, backed up with alleged examples of murder, and intimidating. And so comes what must come and is probably intended by the author: out of fear that the messages will come true, the children spread the news further. And so the computer voice reads the text to the children's best friends, which even gives the adult listener goosebumps. Ice-cold death threats from an equally cold, sober voice.
Our tip!
Our recommendation for dealing with such WhatsApp messages! We at mimikama advise not to spread these chain letters.
It is important that you, as parents and also teachers, inform the children about these circumstances. Further dissemination only contributes to causing discomfort, fear and insecurity among other recipients and to keeping such messages alive over a long period of time, as can be seen from the current example.
How should you as a parent behave if your child has received such a message/chain letter?
Many children and young people cannot always classify this message as a joke or chain letter and actually feel threatened and frightened by the message.
- Interrupt the chain letter and delete it.
- Talk to your child about it and explain to your child that there are people who find it funny to scare other people.
- Let your child know that you take your child's fears seriously, but also convey that this fear is unfounded.
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