metafilter members save two girls from human trafficking

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My friend and former student K arrived in DC yesterday, along with a friend. She came over on some kind of travel exchange program put together by a Russian travel agency called 'Aloha'. They paid about 3K for this program.

 

The program promised a job offer in advance, but didn't deliver. They said they would send one via email, but failed there, too.

 

Her contact in the USA barely speaks English, doesn't answer her calls but does answer mine. He has asked her and her friend to meet in NYC tonight around midnight, with promises of hostess work in a lounge. Yes, I know how horrific that sounds- that's why I am working all possible angles here.

 

She is not going to NYC but I need some help handling and understanding how to handle this- I have a friend helping them with a cheap hotel for the night, but that's all at the moment. I am presently driving to LA and could fly her and her friend to meet me there on Saturday, but couldn't house them indefinitely. I will be monitoring this thread over the next hour...

http://ask.metafilter.com/154334/Help-me-help-my-friend-in-DC

lol, some guy just won 2 sex slaves

This makes really paranoid , all i can think about when i read stories like these is of very dodgy Soviets kidnapping me and stealing me kidneys.

holy shit. sometimes i love the internet. :')

tl;dr

What was the final outcome?

  On 5/21/2010 at 5:10 PM, acidphakist said:

tl;dr

 

What was the final outcome?

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metafilter members save two girls from human trafficking

  On 5/21/2010 at 5:10 PM, acidphakist said:

tl;dr

 

What was the final outcome?

tl;dr, guy tries to convince them going to NYC (from DC) to meet a guy at midnight at a strip club for an interview to become "hostesses" is a very bad idea, they don't believe him, they go anyways, but figure out very quickly that it is, indeed, a bad idea. since he talked to all these mefi people, there are people at the bus station to help them get away without incident. HeArTwArMiNg!

wow the internet actually helped some people. good to see there are still some warm blooded people out there.

I saw some guy wearing a metafilter shirt yesterday. We need WATMM shirts.

i need some more shirts that most everyone has no idea what they mean.

  On 5/21/2010 at 6:27 PM, theSun said:

i need some more shirts that most everyone has no idea what they mean.

that's what i'm saying.

  On 5/21/2010 at 6:10 PM, chaosmachine said:

I saw some guy wearing a metafilter shirt yesterday. We need WATMM shirts.

 

That's pretty good. Have you tried the lettering in a few different blues?

  On 5/21/2010 at 7:16 PM, Rambo said:

That's pretty good. Have you tried the lettering in a few different blues?

yeah, i have like 10 variations on my drive. i made that back in 2006 for the watmm t-shirt thread... lol.

I'm into it

i'd purchase one for a modest fee

jesus watmm we need to do something like this. even if fake.

ok, il get the russian girls and you guys can deprive me of free sex and money.

the funds could go to support human trafficking!

  On 5/21/2010 at 9:23 PM, GORDO said:

jesus watmm we need to do something like this. even if fake.

Good call. We could orchestrate something incredible to make ourselves look heroic to the rest of the internet.

help i'm stuck in a shed

have you informed the consulate?

despite the paralysing arthritis situated in my fingers i am happy to help in anyway i can (involving typing)

happy tears. someone close to me works to help prevent this kind of thing, and even if this is an isolated incident, i'm so glad it turned out this way.

Hey guys...I was supposed to meet these two Russian chicks at my strip club last night. They showed up, but some bozos at the bus stop ran off with them.

WTF?

lol