The Traps Of Human Trafficking

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There are many ways that these children, women and men fall into the traps of human trafficking. We are going to look at just a few of the ways that a trafficker might target a victim and how they go about manipulating their victims. The first method is the Loverboy method, through this method the trafficker is able to convince his victim to trust him and demand conditional love. The Loverboy method takes time to accomplish because it causes the trafficker to invest time in a relationship with the victim to get close to her and pretends to become her boyfriend. The second method that a trafficker might use to trick his victim is by portraying to be a job recruiter. These traffickers know that people dream of a better life and more money,

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