Outline
Viral social media messages warn that Russian booksellers are going door to door in various US locations with the intention of getting information about children for later abductions and human trafficking.
Brief Analysis
The child abduction and human trafficking claims are unfounded and have been dismissed as false by police in various US jurisdictions. Eastern European students working for a direct selling company have been peddling educational material door-to-door, but they are not human traffickers as claimed. The booksellers do reportedly ask questions about children in households they visit with a view to offering the appropriate material for sale. These questions, along with the fairly aggressive selling style of some of the students, has apparently led to the unfounded rumours.
Example
Alert!… If They Come to Your Door… DO NOT Let Them In!
You can delete this post if you find it inappropriate, but just saw it on the Jamestown page & wanted to alert everyone in case these evil people make it to the North dakota area!
SHARED: I just had a guy stop here claiming he was a college student from Europe selling children books and had a heavy accent. I was just walking outside with the kids and was driving by and seen me so slammed on his breaks. It kind of freaked me out so everyone be carful for him he is in Lancaster right now. I was rude to him cause I read this post from someone else. He was over by Drayton this morning out in the country.
ATTENTION FRIENDS IN THE GILBERT AREA (especially with kids): Last week two young slavic girls came to our house selling Children’s books. They asked to come in and were very pushy. They interacted with Maximus for awhile and asked us a ton of questions. They had a binder full of names of families in the area and kept asking over and over for us to give them more names of kids in our neighborhood and surrounding area. They came back two days later again.
Today I found out there is a scam of two women “with heavy accents” going door to door pretending to sell children’s books but who are targeting young girls for sex trafficking. There have been abductions from this scam in other states. I spoke with Gilbert PD and they are already investigating. PLEASE CALL THE POLICE if these girls come to your door
Original Source : https://www.hoax-slayer.com/russian-door-to-door-booksellers-false-warning.html