Social Media Scans for Sex Trafficking Private Investigations

Sex trafficking is an unfortunate reality of the world we live in. In countries like the United States, one can find it everywhere and most often in plain sight. It is not just on the streets or via online platform; it happens in hotels and homes situated into neighborhoods where the people reading this live. This is especially true of states like Oklahoma with access to vast interstate highways that make transporting young boys, girls, teens, and other men, women, and nonbinary people to clients especially easy.

When a person’s loved ones become victims of human trafficking, they will obviously want them back as soon as possible. Since police and other law enforcement personnel can only do so much and often lack the time, resources, and staff to assist, people with financial means hire a sex trafficking private investigator to help locate their missing loved ones. Those who do not either do not have the financial means and/or do not know what a human trafficking detective can do to help with the dire situation.

Our legal staff has been helping find victims of sex trafficking for many years, and they have multiple techniques they can use to help with the process. Some of our techniques include, but are not limited to, the following:

Social Media Scans

Social media scans are perfect for human trafficking private investigations. This is because sex trafficking often involves online advertisements, photos, and customers. They are excellent tools that can help identify and locate both the victims and perpetrators of sex trafficking. Social media scans for sex trafficking private investigations can help find people involved in prostitution online and can help lead us directly to them and the people who make them do it. From pornography to sex videos, massages with happy conclusions, and outright offers of sexual intercourse, this is a top method for us to recover missing people and bring human traffickers to justice.

Our social media scan private investigator has numerous ways to use social media scans to help find both perpetrators of sexual abuse and the victims of sex trafficking. The first way is for a deep sweep of the victim’s social media profiles, names, nicknames, photos, and social media accounts like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X. There are all kinds of things that could pop up, and we need to know what they are. Any clue is something our private investigators will need to follow.

We can also try to scour the various known sex, romance, and human trafficking websites on the Internet that pimps and other sex traffickers use to advertise their victims for sex. These exist in abundance on the Dark Web and even all over the Internet, so scouring these will be crucial to trying to locate your missing family member or friend.

Our social media scan private detective can also use social media scans to go on known human trafficking websites to identify and locate the perpetrator. These are especially helpful if the client already knows the name and identification information of the human trafficker. Our private detective agency can then go through the sex trafficker’s profiles, known pimping profiles, and more to try to find the scoundrel.

Skip Tracing 

Skip tracing can sometimes help yield favorable results, when seeking to locate human traffickers and their victims. Our private investigation agency can see those to whom registered phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and physical location addresses are registered. If they are registered with a phone company Verizon or AT&T, E-mail company like Google/Gmail or Yahoo, or in the case of physical addresses to a governmental agency like the county treasury, it should pull up some plausible information on who owns the item or entity.

Unfortunately, sex traffickers often know that registered locations, phones, and e-mail addresses can help social media private investigators and police identify them, so many choose to use spoofing apps, overseas calling numbers that do not require registration, and meeting in locations they do not own and which are not traceable back to them. This can make it more difficult to track them down and use this information, but it is certainly possible. Our skip tracers are extremely adept at finding even the most difficult information and have been doing this line of work for many years.

Undercover Sex Trafficking Client Operations 

You can also hire a private detective to go undercover as a would-be client to search for your missing loved one. That way we can seek out the human trafficking victims and try to see the in person. When we do find the family member or friend you are seeking, we can alert law enforcement to help us and will initiate the escape to safety.

Criminal private investigations of this nature are extremely dangerous work, and these types of prostitution private investigations come with great risks. To help mitigate the risk of accidental violations of law and accompanying criminal charges and safety risks and concerns, our private eyes will work closely with law enforcement whenever possible to inform them of the situation and our planned actions. That way they can know we are not trying to break the law and be “real” clients who want to have sex with victims of prostitution. Likewise, if something ever goes south/wrong they can already know what we are doing and can help with a faster, more informed response.

Undercover Sex Trafficking Victim Operations 

While once again collaborating with law enforcement personnel, our clients can also hire a sex trafficking private investigator to go undercover and become a victim of sex trafficking per se to try to gain access to your loved one. While it is extremely risky and expensive to try, it can sometimes have success.

License Plate Checks 

License plate checks are also amazing for finding out whose name and address are associated with any vehicle. Assuming someone did not steal the plates or vehicle, a license plate check could help reveal the identity of the perpetrator. It might also help lead our human trafficking private investigator to the sex trafficking victim.

Surveillance 

Surveillance of sex traffickers and other perpetrators of human trafficking and other sexual violence is an invaluable investigative technique that surveillance private investigations can help with. In doing so, we also have an opportunity to spot the victim of sex trafficking that our client is trying to locate. By watching the alleged perpetrators and known areas where they and their victims reside and work, we can hopefully get a fresh set of eyes on the situation and can hopefully bring your loved one home quickly and safely.

Collaboration with Law Enforcement & Media

Our sex trafficking private eye will also work with law enforcement and various media outlets to try to help bring your loved one back home safely. Because we have many years in business as the best private investigation agency, our PIs also have plenty of phone and e-mail contacts with police and media sources. These special contacts can prove to be extremely beneficial to our quest to bring your loved one back home.