False Job Offers:

• Promising lucrative employment opportunities in industries like modeling, hospitality, or agriculture.

• Offering work with unrealistic wages or benefits that seem too good to be true.

Deceptive Relationships:

• Building trust through romantic or platonic relationships, then coercing victims into exploitative situations.

• Pretending to befriend vulnerable individuals, only to exploit them later.

Physical and Psychological Abuse:

• Inflicting violence, threats, or intimidation to control survivors.

• Manipulating victims psychologically, often through emotional abuse or gaslighting.

Isolation and Control:

• Restricting survivors' movements and communications, isolating them from friends, family, or community.

• Confiscating identification documents to limit survivors' autonomy and ability to seek help.

Debt Bondage:

• Recruiting individuals under the guise of helping them pay off debts or loans, then exploiting them indefinitely.

• Imposing exorbitant fees for transportation, accommodation, or other necessities, creating a cycle of debt.

Trauma Bonding:

• Exploiting survivors' vulnerabilities and inducing dependency on traffickers through manipulation and emotional abuse.

• Creating a sense of loyalty or indebtedness in survivors, making it difficult for them to seek help or escape.

Forced Criminal Activity:

• Coercing survivors into illegal activities such as drug trafficking, theft, or fraud, under threat of violence or harm.

• Using survivors as "mules" or pawns in criminal enterprises, exploiting their vulnerability and desperation.