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This section on mobile phones will show you how to keep yourself and your mates safe when chatting, texting and downloading on your mobile.

Select the Advice button to get started. If you want to learn about some technical tools to keep yourself safer select the Tools button. If you want to know where to go to report a problem, select the Report button below. Just to remind you there’s always the Glossary to help you if you get stuck on any of the words or terms in this section.

Finally you can check out the quizzes about mobile safety and premium rate services in the Activity Centre.

Summary

Get Informed: visit the Free Tools to Help You section in the INFO CENTRE in this guide for a checklist of questions to ask your operator. There is also a guide for your parents written by Orange mobile phone company.

Report: serious threat or harassment on your phone to your local police.

Report bullying: or nuisance calls to your mobile operator.

Report text message scams: Play games and find out about premium rate services on your mobile phone at www.phonebrain.org.uk. You can also report text message scams here or to ICSTIS by dialling 0800 500 212 or by visiting www.icstis.org.uk

Learn: Childnet’s chatdanger website has an excellent section on mobile phones. www.chatdanger.com

All organisations and their website links are correct at time of printing (March 2007).