What do you think of Perverted Justice? An excerpt from their website http://www.perverted-justice.com/guide/ . . .

[i]Perverted-Justice.com recruits volunteer contributors who pose as underage children in chatrooms. Posing from a variety of ages (standard ages are 10-15), these contributors simply go into chatrooms with fake online screennames and wait for predators to instigate conversation with them. Are you curious as to what our contributors see when they go into chat with these underage names? Finding out for yourself is easy. Simply go to Yahoo.com, create a new profile, put underage information in your profile (works best if you are posing as a girl), then log into any regional chatroom (perhaps even the one closest to your own community). Without even saying anything in the chatroom, you will often be deluged by PM's that will occassionally be open solicitations for sex or "grooming" (an adult preparing, through conversation, an underage child for such solicitations). Now simply imagine if, instead of you, it actually was a young child logging online only to receive this "perverted" greeting from fellow chatters. Hence, the problem.

We at Perverted-Justice.com discourage you from taking the ruse beyond this point, going this far proves the point we're trying to make - that sexual predators are online looking for young children - and any further dialogue you make with the people on the other end is your responsibility, and yours alone.

The carefully selected, screened and trained Perverted-Justice.com staff take this escapade one logical step further, in an attempt to find out more about the problem. Using their underage personas, they strike up conversations with the people who PM them. The people we find in these chats talking to our underage personas typically range between 25-60 years old: so much older than the underage personas (which range from 10-15) that it gives cause for alarm. In our experience, the vast majority of these chatters express an interest in physically meeting our underage personas, even luring them away from family and friends to a discreet, private location for a rendezous of an explicitely sexual nature.

During the course of the conversations our contributors have with these chatters, we watch out for signs that the chatter is soliciting the "youth" for sex, and after that person demonstrates the clear intent or interest to go beyond chat and meet with these underage personas (often through the form of real received addresses, names, phone numbers and meeting locations given voluntarily by the chatter during the course of the chat to help facilitate a meeting), our PeeJ contributors post all information in the chat logs to the Perverted-Justice.com database (not before careful verification proceedures to ensure authenticity). We feel exposing these "wannabe pedophiles" illustrates for others the problem of predators and internet pedophilia, and helps raises community awareness.[i]