This Is How Human Traffickers Are Targeting Facebook, Tinder To Search Underage Victims

Social media is becoming a hotbed to hunt for potential underage victims, reveals a new study. Human traffickers are exploiting platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or SnapChat, as well as dating apps such as Tinder, Blendr and Yellow to look for young females.

Traffickers educate themselves by studying what the victim posts on these sites to build trust, said the study by the Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute of the University of Toledo in Ohio, US.

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Traffickers quickly target and connect with vulnerable children on the Internet through social media. Grooming children for sex trafficking consists of convincing someone to send a risky picture and then using it to extort them.