What are some common grooming techniques used by human traffickers?
user
Human traffickers may groom their victims by:
- Spending lots of time getting to know the victim and winning their trust.
- Being overly nice and making them feel important. 
- Offering companionship, money, gifts, drugs or even employment. 
- Making victims feel ashamed or embarrassed when making requests for help.  
- Using peer pressure or threats to make the victim comply.  
- Creating a sense of dependency by controlling finances and providing a place to stay.
assistant
What are some common grooming techniques used by human traffickers?
user
Human traffickers use a range of techniques to groom victims, including befriending them and gaining their trust, providing gifts or favorable treatment, exploiting their emotional and/or physical vulnerabilities, and exerting control over them through threats or other forms of coercion. Traffickers may also give victims lavish gifts or promises of a better life to convince them to comply with what would otherwise seem inappropriate requests or activities. Traffickers are known to frequently photograph and videotape their victims as forms of psychological control and threat dissuasion. They may also provide addictive drugs such as alcohol or prescription medication in order to keep the victim docile and more likely to follow orders.
assistant
What are some common grooming techniques used by human traffickers?