What is the CyberTipline?

Launched in March of 1998, the CyberTipline offers a means of reporting incidents of child sexual exploitation including:

• Possession, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography
• Online entixement of children for sexual acts
• Child prostitution
• Sex Tourism Involving Children
• Extrafamilial Child Sexual Molestation
• Unsolicited Obscene Material Sent to a Child
• Misleading Domain Names
• Misleading words of digital Images on the Internet

Authorized by Congress, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline is operated in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces (ICACs), the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), as well as other international, state, and local law enforcement.

Any incidents reported to the CyberTipline online or by telephone go through this three-step process. 1) CyberTipline operators review and prioritize each lead. 2) NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division analyzes tips and conducts additional research. 3) The information is accessible to the FBI, ICE, and the USPIS via a secure Web connection. Information is also forwarded to the ICACs and pertinent international, state, and local authorities and, when appropriate, to the Electronic Service Provider.

The CyberTipline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Reports may be made online at www.cybertipline.com or by calling 1-800-843-5678.