Can these scary emoji help curb child sex abuse?

These new emoji may look scary at first, but they may just help save children from potential sexual predators lurking online.

An international non-profit organization had an ad agency to put a disturbing twist on the familiar emoji, so children would be more careful who they chat with.

"Who's really chatting online with your child?" read the message on the emoji, some of which were posted on Gizmodo.


Gizmodo described the ad campaign as clever, insofar as seeking to stop sexual predators from occupying a child's open tabs.

Innocence en Danger, the group behind the campaign, wants to warn people that the person on the other end of an Internet chat could be a pervert.


"And what's hiding behind that winky face might just be creep(i)er," it said.

A separate article on CNET said the images presently appear in magazines and newspapers, and in Paris bus shelters. — VC, GMA News