You may have seen this post on the Newsweek blog or the Metafilter thread that inspired it, but in case you haven’t you should.
A guy found out some friends of his had come from Russia with the promise of work only to have the work fall through at the last minute. They were then told to go from D.C. (where the work was supposed to be) to New York City to meet with a new potential employer at midnight about hostessing jobs. Thinking this sounded fishy and like his friends may have found themselves in a human trafficking situation, but not being in D.C. to help, he turned to the internet, to MetaFilter, to ask for assistance. While things aren’t completely settled yet, the women are still safely in New York with someone who read about the situation on MetaFilter and offered to help.
You read a lot of stuff about people meeting on the internet and things ending badly, kidnapping, pedophile, etc. It is nice to see a situation where the internet was used in order to keep people out of a dangerous situation. It is also nice to see someone reaching out for help and other people being there to answer.
