| by Camila Rodriguez |

Yubo is an app that is meant to help teens find friends. It has a similar format to dating apps that t with teens using this app, they are using it to sell drugs and are using it to find sexual partners. But worst of all adults are using the app to pose as teens to abduct them. Certain sex trafficking organizations have been linked to the Yubo. Missing teens last conversations have been with people on the app and then they are never seen again.



A young girl named Margret from Florida had recently gone missing. The last of her conversations were with who she thought was a charming young man but was actually a 57 year old registered sex offender James Mason. Margret was found after being seen on cctv cameras in a Walmart with James Mason when he took her on a short trip to get motor oil for his car. After the worker manning the the cctv cameras spotted a face he recognized on the news as Margret and immediately called Orlando police. We provide limited information out of respect for the family.



With law enforcement realizing the issue, the Florida Online Investigative Organization posed as young women on the Yubo app and they ran into, nude photos of teens, adults simply changing their age and nothing else, and the most profound, sex traffickers posing as teens to collect children for their schemes. The FOIO created a decoy Jessica Lopez, Jessica was talking to a boy called “Malcom”. The decoy chatted and got to know “Malcom” for a week before they decided to meet up. They planned to meet up at a park in a secluded area. The brave Sara Fernandez acted as the decoy, she is 21 and looks surprisingly young. She stepped out of the car and two men rushed at her. A swat team bursts from a van nearby and got the situation under control. Everyone got home safe, and the people there to take the decoy were arrested. This experiment was done several times and after many awkward conversations with innocent teens confused on where Jessica was, they finally got a hit.