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Contact risks: Refer to situations in which minors are victims of the interactions, as opposed to the actor: a. hateful encounters; b. harmful encounters (e.g. the encounter takes place with the intention to harm the minor); c. illegal encounters (e.g. can be prosecuted under criminal law); and d. other problematic encounters. Examples of contact risks include, but are not limited to, online grooming, online sexual coercion and extortion, sexual abuse via webcam, cyberbullying and trafficking in human beings for the purposes of sexual exploitation. These risks also extend to online fraud practices such as phishing, marketplace fraud, and identity theft.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.