West Shore RCMP are investigating three separate cases of children allegedly targeted by 764, a global online group known for grooming or coercing children into self-harm and other acts of violence. The group targets children on Roblox, Minecraft, Twitch, Telegram, Discord, and platforms discussing true crime; to gain access to 764's Discord servers and Telegram channels, children are asked to perform violent actions or provide sexually explicit materials, and once inside, more content is required to remain active. Cpl. Nancy Saggar characterized the group as "a violent online entity, a group of people who are malicious, whose very intent is to harm children and to then spread that harm online and essentially feed off of it in the most disgusting manner." An outreach counsellor reported that several children were "quietly suffering" for months before others discovered it, afraid to report their experiences due to threats that they or their family would be harmed.
Guardii's anti-grooming detection module identifies the multi-stage trust-building and boundary-testing patterns that define 764's recruitment and coercion tactics, flagging age-inappropriate contact, escalating demands for content, and linguistic markers of manipulation before a child is drawn into violent or sexually exploitative communities. The platform monitors direct messages in real time across Discord, Roblox, Telegram-linked platforms and others, blocking hostile contact before it reaches the target and surfacing a child in acute distress—particularly one receiving threats or demands for self-harm or explicit material—to a parent, school or professional within seconds. Because Guardii detects threat patterns rather than reading every message, it preserves privacy while enabling rapid escalation to the right authority in an emergency, closing the operational window groups like 764 depend on: silent, isolated children too frightened to disclose.
