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* In the film ''Series/Human Trafficking|2005'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.

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* In the film ''Series/Human Trafficking|2005'' ''Series/HumanTrafficking'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.
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* In the film ''Series/[[Human Trafficking|2005]]'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.

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* In the film ''Series/[[Human Trafficking|2005]]'' ''Series/Human Trafficking|2005'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.
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* In the film ''Film/{{Human Trafficking|2005}}'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.

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* In the film ''Film/{{Human Trafficking|2005}}'' ''Series/[[Human Trafficking|2005]]'' (2005), the BigBad has a model agency in East Europe. In a twist, the agency '''actually is''' a model agency (i. e. they make photoshoots for low-grade papers and such), with the main goal of it to launder the money made with said trafficking. However, many models still end up kidnapped and sold into prostitution.
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Overlaps with RevengePornBlackmail if the photos are used for blackmail purposes. Contrast ModelingIsGlamorous.
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* Photo Finish in ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'' is a cross between this and SleazyPhotoshoot, in that Finish is an actual fashion photographer but she premeditatedly uses a combination of [[ReadTheFinePrint fine print]] and [[IAmNotPretty emotional abuse]] to get out of paying her victims. Also, she teaches her victims a [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay characteristic]] SupermodelStrut that Fleur thinks is [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stupid-looking]].
-->"How did she justify not paying you?"\\
"...I'm sorry," Fluttershy instinctively apologized in a way which was also threatening to become a signature move, "but I don't understand --"\\
"Photo Finish," Fleur spat, and Fluttershy pulled back from the anger. "What did she write into the contract that time? You had to pay for your own cosmetics? All hotel rooms were booked using your salary? It turned out that every time a shoot ran overtime, you covered the extra and 'overtime' started after three minutes? What was it?"\\
A soft fall breeze shifted the grass, carried some of the cottage's odors around them. None of the miasma could put a taste in Fleur's mouth which would have been worse than the name, and even Mr. Flankington would have been hard-pressed to trigger more illness.\\
"...I left before my term was complete," Fluttershy finally said. "She told me there was a -- forfeiture fee, and... my friend almost went after her, I just got my teeth around her tail in time, and after that, it was hard to... there were consequences, and..." Her head slowly dipped, bowed by the weight of memory. "It... hurt her. For a while. And I... didn't get anything except a copy of the calendar. From the printer. And she still tried to send me a bill for it."
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* In one episode of the Creator/{{ABC}} SketchComedy ''Series/NoSoapRadio'', hotel manager Roger is the victim of a fake beauty contest.
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* This is the method used in the opening of the anti-trafficking film ''Film/SoundOfFreedom''. Giselle, a former beauty queen from Colombia, poses as a talent scout and offers several Honduran children a chance at careers in entertainment. She loosens their hair, undoes buttons and adds bright lipstick, all the while encouraging the kids to strike increasingly suggestive poses. The scam ends with all the children being kidnapped, taken back to Colombia and sold into sex slavery.
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* ''ComicBook/RedEars'': The current page image shows a sleazy-looking guy approaching a young woman and her boyfriend and promising her a big career in films. What he fails to mention is that he is a porn director, which the woman only realizes when she shows up to the set.

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* Part of the prologue to an episode of ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', where a serial killer would entice his victims this way.

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Part of the prologue to an episode of ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', the Season 4 finale, "Hall of Fame", where a serial killer would entice his victims this way.way. That serial killer being ThatOneCase that ultimately retired C.D.
** Season 7's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS7E17LivegirlsDotNow livegirls.now]]" detailed Trivette's new girlfriend being kidnapped by a gang of sex slave traders after one of her photo shoots, and he and Walker had to rescue her before she was auctioned off.
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