Virtual 10-year-old has already caught thousands of online predators

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Four researchers from Dutch charity, Terres des Hommes, have designed a virtual 10-year-old  girl in an attempt to catch internet predators. After 1,600 hours of posing as an underaged Filipina girl, the researchers have managed to catch over 1,000 alleged pedophiles. 

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Sweetie, a 10-year-old Filipina, is willing to give the man who contacted her, a 35-year-old father of two from Atlanta, 10 minutes of a nude sex show for $10.

The method by which the charity identified the men was one well known to hackers. They asked.

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