Momo Challenge

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The Momo Challenge is supposed to be a form of cyber bullying that has been spreading via social media, mobile phones and videos since 2018. Phone users are doing on the instant messaging - service WhatsApp are asked to contact a user named "Momo" to creepy messages to obtain this user. You should also be instructed to perform a number of dangerous tasks. In 2019, the Momo Challenge should also appear in videos on YouTube , especially in those aimed at children and adolescents, for example in videos about the computer games Minecraft and Fortnite . The first WhatsApp phone numbers from which Momo is said to have spread messages had prefixes from Japan , Mexico or Spain and are now blocked or no longer available.

In the course of the reporting, however, the indications have increased that the Momo Challenge itself never took place. Both the BBC and the Guardian reported that the phenomenon was a hoax. Accordingly, the reports on the above-mentioned threats spread via social media are said to be inaccurate. This must be distinguished from the - apparently real - internet phenomenon of the widespread reporting on the supposed Momo Challenge.

presentation

A picture of a doll-like statue, which is supposed to represent a girl, with stringy black hair and a wide, distorted mouth and protruding large black eyes from the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo ( Japan ) is shown as Momo .

cases

In Argentina , France and Belgium one case of suicide by adolescents is said to have been reported which is attributed to this phenomenon.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "Momo-Challenge" is back: Horror figure appears in children's videos and on Fortnite. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Attention HOAX! Creepy news from Momo , website: saferinternet.at from July 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Momo challenge: The anatomy of a hoax . February 28, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed March 11, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Jim Waterson Media editor: Viral 'Momo challenge' is a malicious hoax, say charities . In: The Guardian . February 28, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 11, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b Sui Xin Yao: Momo Challenge calls for another victim (14) in France , website: nau.ch from November 7, 2018, last accessed on November 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Freya Noble: What is Momo? Terrifying 'challenge' linked to 12-year-old's suicide , website: 9news.com.au from August 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ Police suspect 12-year-old girl's suicide linked to WhatsApp terror game Momo , Buenos Aires Times, July 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ 14-year-old dies because of Momo Challenge , Heute.at of November 7, 2018.
  9. ^ "Momo Challenge": Not a case in Luxembourg . Luxemburger Wort, 6 November 2018.