People are tricked into situations where they are bought, sold, abused, and exploited in many different ways: sexual exploitation, forced labour, street crime, domestic servitude or even the sale of organs and human sacrifice. Trafficking affects every continent and every country. Traffickers and their victims often come from the same place, speak the same language or have the same ethnic background as their victims. Such commonalities help traffickers generate trust to carry out the crime.

People are trafficked primarily for financial gain. Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry -  it is a high-profit, low-risk crime.

***Source: in.gov

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