SOCIAL MEDIA TRAP: The head of European policing agency Europol said traffickers were drawing victims in by posting advertisements for childcare or cleaning vacancies and once ensnared, controlling their movements with webchats and webcams.
LONDON: Gangs are using social media sites such as Facebook to lure young women into crime and prostitution, the head of European policing agency Europol said.
Rob Wainwright said traffickers were drawing victims in by posting advertisements for childcare or cleaning vacancies and once ensnared, controlling their movements with webchats and webcams.
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