How can I identify if someone is trying to groom me for trafficking?
How can I identify if someone is trying to groom me for trafficking?
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Groomers typically target individuals who are young and vulnerable, offering them companionship, gifts, and reassurance. They often seek to create an emotional bond in order to gain the individual's trust before increasing pressure to engage in increasingly risky behaviours. If you feel like someone is grooming you for trafficking or exploitation, look out for signs such as an imbalance of power (the other person is excessively controlling or dictating the terms of interactions), requests for sexual photographs or videos without any explicit promises of gaining mutual benefit from such activity(they may use coercion such as threats). Watch out if this person makes unrealistic promises with little effort required on your part; refuses communication through mediums like parent/guardian/peer etc; limits control over your activities online i.e tracking the computer’s movements; constantly offers gifts/money that seem too generous to be true— they could actually be pay-offs for providing access to younger individuals that could be lured into the trafficker’schain; and seem unusually interested in personal information regarding relationships, family background and educational level etc
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How can I identify if someone is trying to groom me for trafficking?
user
Look for possible red flags such as being asked to communicate with someone only online, pressure to not tell anyone about the conversations or activities you are engaging in, the presence of excessive detail about travelling abroad or living arrangements, increased control over your social media accounts and communications without valid reasoning, or receiving gifts with no explanation of where it came from.
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