AN INFLUENCER has urged holiday goers to be careful after she realised she was almost trafficked from the restaurant of her Cyprus hotel.
Summer Fox, who boasts 764k followers on TikTok, shared the story of how she was potentially almost trafficked along with her friends, but admitted she had no idea at the time.
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In the viral video, Summer said she had forgotten all about the bizarre incident until she watched a documentary, which brought all of their memories back.
According to Summer, about four years ago she was staying in a posh hotel just outside of Ayia Napa with two of her friends.
The trio ate at the fine dining restaurant inside the hotel a few nights in a row, and each time they noticed a girl sat on her own all glammed up.
Summer recalled that the girl would make eye contact with her friends, before texting on her phone again.
At the time, the friends didn’t think much of it, and even joked that the girl must’ve fancied one of them because of how often she was looking at them.
Soon after, the girl got up from her table and approached Summer and her friends to invite them to a party that night.
“She was trying to convince us [to go to the party] but we said no a few times,” Summer explained.
Eventually, the girl, who was glammed up in a sparkly dress and a full face of makeup, went back to her table and continued to text someone.
Summer admitted that they still didn’t think much about the situation, other than it being “a bit awkward and weird.”
But then one of Summer’s friends chimed in to say it could be a human trafficking plot, an idea that Summer and her other friend thought was “ridiculous” at the time.
Then, when the group left the restaurant the suspicious girl was waiting for them, and urged them to come to a party with them, even telling them there was a taxi waiting outside.
At this point, Summer said the girl looked pretty stressed out and annoyed as she continued to text someone.
Luckily, the group didn’t see the girl again and didn’t think much about the encounter until Summer watched a documentary which felt eerily similar.
In the documentary, Summer explained a glam woman also approached a girl in a bar, befriended her and then took her to another location, paid for all of her drinks and then drugged her and took her to a group of men who trafficked her.
“When I saw that I just thought ‘oh my f***ing god’ that was definitely the case,” Summer said.
To make things even worse, Summer admitted that if her “more cautious friend” wasn’t there and if the strange woman was “a better actress” she might’ve gone with her.
After sharing her story some TikTok users agreed with Summer that it could’ve been a human trafficking plot she narrowly avoided.
One commented: “People don’t take trafficking seriously enough. It’s so horrible.”
“This happened to me and my friends in Marbella,” someone else wrote.
And a third said they experienced something similar in Vegas, but didn’t hang around to find out where it went.
“Me and my cousin almost got trafficked in Gran Canaria! Two women approached us, we didn’t realise until we got home then in clicked. So scary,” someone else said.
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
Human trafficking involves the recruitment or movement of people for exploitation by the use of threat, force, fraud, or the abuse of vulnerability.
Trafficking is a crime that can occur across international borders or within a country. It often crosses multiple geographic and legal boundaries.
Men, women and children may be trafficked for various purposes. They include labour sectors (for example, agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, services), domestic servitude, forced begging and petty theft and sexual exploitation.
Individuals who have been trafficked are likely to experience multiple physical and mental health risks prior to, during and after their trafficking experiences, and many suffer acute and long-term health problems. Health consequences of human trafficking may include injuries, physical pain and illnesses, and sexual health problems. They may also include mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, psychosis and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Women trafficked for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude report high levels of sexual violence. Men and women report high levels of symptoms of sexually transmitted infections.
Source: gov.uk
