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But what's even scarier is the number of people out there looking to have sexual dialogue or contact with your kids.
It’s easy to think our children won't be a victim of this, that they aren't going onto sites where this could happen.
But as we found out, internet predators will find your kids, even if your children does absolutely nothing to provoke them.
This undercover FBI agent we'll call Amy, knows what teenagers like.
Watch MTV, see what's on TRL, things 13 year old girls will know.
It’s part of her job with the FBI’s "innocent images" unit, to go online posing as young boys and girls. Even as parents looking to sell their children for sex. Finding sexual predators before they can find a victim.
We go on to take a proactive stance, rather than letting someone travel and sex abuse a kid we catch them before they have an opportunity to do it.
Finding those people is shockingly easy.
In every single role, when we go online it takes a matter of seconds before we're solicited or contacted by someone with a sexual interest
As Amy sits idle in a chat room, a man instant messages her, intrigued by her profile, which says she's a 13 year old girl.
"He says I’m 56 is that too old for you, and I say what do you look like, are you cute?"
Almost immediately, he sends a picture.
A few lines later, the conversation takes a frightening turn.
“See we haven’t been chatting but 3-4 min and he's asking for the size of my breasts. It's incredible it can go so quickly in one direction. I've said nothing sexual.”
The man asks if Amy would be willing to lose her virginity to him. She says "it depends". He then tries to figures out when he can travel from North Carolina to Maryland to see her.
He asks me if I can get out for the whole night
Even if the children are in safe sites like for video games or children's movies, predators know how to find them.
The national center for missing and exploited children found 1 in 5 children were solicited on the internet last year.
Most kids know not to talk to strangers, outside or online, but sometimes they do anyway.
“I think kids are taken aback, but there is a curiosity where they might respond.
Amy says kids also have a false sense of safety.
Usually, they're typing at their home and haven't given out their location.
Even so, she says the people on the other end of the computer will stop at nothing to get to a child.
“If put up pic and first name, only a matter of min to figure out who this child is, maybe their home address.”
Be sure your children know to tell you if they receive a solicitation and make it clear that if they will not be punished.
FBI agents say if adults threaten a child's internet access, the children are less likely to report online solicitations, fearing punishment.
If your child has been solicited, you can report it online.
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