Traffickers use force, fraud and coercion as a means to press
victims into lives of servitude and abuse:
• Force – Rape, beatings, confinement
• Fraud – False offers of employment, marriage, better life
• Coercion – Threats, debt-bondage, psychological abuse
Victims of trafficking can be found in:
- Hospitality Services
- Restaurants, Hotels, Janitorial, etc.
- Factory Work
- Sweatshops
- Construction
- Landscaping
- Domestic Servitude
- Peddling or Begging
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industries
- Small businesses
- Door-to-door sales
- Nail salons
- Traveling Carnivals
- Commercial sex
- Prostitution, Massage Parlors, Pornography, On-line
exploitation, etc.