How are victims deceived?
A5: Traffickers approach potential victims in a variety of manners including: • direct contact with family and relatives • agents who scout for potential victims in source regions, sometimes representing themselves as a potential sponsor or love interest • misleading advertisements promising jobs and opportunity in North America. More abusive methods are also used and range from: • coerced compliance • extortion • kidnapping • servitude • violence, including physical and emotional abuse. Human trafficking may occur locally or domestically, without any movement, such as within the same city. Victims may be transported by plane, boat, train or any type of vehicle, and often a combination of them, using genuine and/or fraudulent documents that are usually removed from them upon arrival at their destination. Victims may then be isolated and/or taken to illicit businesses where they may be subjected to physical and sexual abuse and concealment. They may be forced to perform a variety of ser
