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People traffickers are posting promotional videos featuring innocent young British women flirting to entice male migrants to go to Britain.
Daily Mail reports that clips of the women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services, providing irregular migration routes to the UK and Europe, it is believed.
A network of accounts across social media websites, TikTok and Instagram, with tens of thousands of followers between them, has shared similar footage.
Videos stamped with a Union Jack emoji show young girls in semi-revealing clothing, like low-cut tops or shorts, in situations where they are typically joking around in the street or outside pubs or clubs around the UK.
The young women featured laugh, pose or dance for the camera in a mildly flirtatious way, apparently completely unaware of how the footage will later be framed and shared with thousands of mostly male strangers.
The accounts posting such footage are believed to be fronts for criminal people smuggling gangs looking to sign up new business, principally from North Africa and the Middle East.
