Where to report online abuse

Contacting the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT)

The VGT is an interactive unit of police officers who accept reports from the public about cases of online abuse involving youth. Any suspect encounters in chatrooms, on Instant Messenger, via e-mail or through the web can be reported to them directly.

• Make a report immediately to the VGT

Contacting the Internet Watch Foundation

The IWF act as a filter for the Police and will act immediately on any reports of images of child abuse hosted anywhere in the world, criminally obscene content hosted in the UK and criminally racist content hosted in the UK.

• Make a report immediately to the IWF

Contacting your local Police

You should contact the Police if you encounter any of the following: harassment, bullying, threats, confessions to crimes, racially based incitement to violence, fraud or blackmail.

• Read how Microsoft works with the Police?


• Find your local Police station to file a report

Report Abuse to your Mobile phone network

We've put together a form that you can save as a word document. This form has all the information you need to report abuse received on your mobile phone. Open the WSC Mobile phone abuse log

Report Abuse to MSN

MSN terms and conditions clearly state what kinds of behaviour we will not tolerate on our services, and we can disable an account and/or remove any content that has been posted on MSN.

We can't stop people from creating new accounts, however, we can take action on accounts used by troublemakers if they are reported to us.

• Read the MSN Terms of Use


• Read how to report abusive e-mail with full headers to MSN Hotmail
  
• Report abuse on MSN Spaces


• Report abuse to MSN Messenger Support
  
• Report abuse to MSN Groups Support


• Report abuse to MSN Member Directory Support

Please allow our support teams 48hours to respond to your inquiry.

Contacting charities and other helpful organisations

There are a number of helpful organisations which accept calls and reports direct from the public.

• Report any kind of child abuse to the NSPCC


• Report internet crime to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit


• Report Crime and domestic violence


• What to know if you share a computer with the person abusing you


• Report Identity theft
  
• Report Spam sent from within the European Union

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