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druganaut: thee-renaissance-man: kimreesesdaughter: kimreesesdaughter: Sex Trafficking in Atlanta relies heavy in the real estate arena. They post these banging ass condos and lofts for like $350 a month (especially for “female” students) and give you just a phone number to set up a “tour”. Be safe y'all. Also in the job market!!! People are such easy targets because the job market is such trash here. Y’all be safe out there! I know how uncomfortable I am meeting people I meet online; most likely if I’m selling or buying something. I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable it is for women to do this. Boost to raise awareness for trafficking in ATL and nationwide. They‘re preying on Black women spec. because we’re struggling more. 😡 And less likely to be covered on the news.

Someone wanted me to post sources for this, but honestly when it comes to this sort of thing, there aren’t a lot of sources. People go missing all the time from all sorts of ways and these are ones that are common via anecdotal stories and warnings passed around by people who are most vulnerable to these scams (aka people the police are less likely to look for) & have had people go missing.

These are good rules of thumb regardless. The world isn’t a completely evil place, but its always best to be careful and watch out for red flags like this. Sex trafficking is a massive industry in the US and its easy to forget that when it isn’t constantly on the news because the people who go missing are predominantly black, and/or immigrants, and/or don’t speak english.

I think this post is pretty far from fear mongering. These are things you should be wary of anyway and also things that people don’t usually talk about.