Chat Avenue is a web site that hosts chat rooms. Originally launched with DigiChat software based on Java, it was subsequently changed and built with Flash Chat, an Adobe Flash avenue software for in-browser chat rooms in October Some chat rooms within the site, which target younger audiences, are known to be used by law enforcement to catch online predators.

Chat Avenue was among dating social media and messaging apps named to have allegedly been used by the child predators. In FebruaryChannel chat released a television series documenting a specialist covert police unit tracking sexual predators online. Chat Avenue was one of the platforms used by the police officers and was featured abundantly in the first episode of the series.

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