It Makes Money!!!

• The Internet pornography industry is arguably the most active and lucrative area of digital commerce in cyberspace.
• While most corporate home pages tabulate monthly hits in the thousands, top adult sites regularly garner more than one million hits per day. That puts them well ahead, in fact, of such corporate sites as General Electric or Boeing.
• Porn site visitors are more likely to spend money on the spot.
• 80 to 90 percent of all e-commerce is conducted at adult sites.
• There are roughly 10,000 sites generating about $1 billion in revenue per year, mostly through electronic credit card transactions.
• Small sites that get 10,000 hits per day gross about $3,000 per month while large sites with multi-million daily hits can bring in more than $1 million per month

There Is a Large Audience!

• 40 million people in the U.S. visit Internet porn sites – and the numbers are growing rapidly.
• 72 million people worldwide will visit Internet porn sites this year.
• Use of the Internet in private removes one of the biggest obstacles to selling pornography and sexual services – shame.

They Can Find You Even If You Are Not Looking For Them!

• Thousands of pornography sites appear on the Internet specifically designed to take advantage of innocent mistakes in order to expose adults, teens and children to graphic sexual images:
• Mirror Sites: By simply altering the ending of a website address, pornographers are able to expose adults and children to their wares. For example, if someone searching for the official website for the White House types www.whitehouse.com instead of www.whitehouse.gov, he or she will be exposed to a hard-core porn site.
• Spelling Errors: Pornographers have intentionally given their porn sites addresses that match up to commonly misspelled Internet addresses. For instance, if an Internet user types in www.betscape.com rather than www.netscape.com, or www.sharware.com instead of www.shareware.com, he will be confronted with live sex shows and other X-rated offerings.
• Misuse of Brand Name: An innocent search on "Disney Cartoons" will of course bring up Internet links to wholesome cartoons-as well as a host of links to sites showing popular cartoon characters engaged in sex acts.

What Can You Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family?

• You have already done the right thing securing the Bsafe Online Internet Filter. Additionally you can:
• Regularly review your Activity Reports.
• While we update the databases many times daily, the porn site operators are always attempting to find new methods to “entice” you by getting you to their sites through some level of misdirection.
• If you see bad or suspicious sites on your report alert Bsafe Online via contacting mrfilter@bsafeonline.com. or calling Customer Support at 850-362-4301.