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“Sex traffickers are using a zip-tie contraption on the door handles of vehicles “to trick females into looking down and digging for something in their purse to cut with ... Once they’re distracted, boom! They are quickly forced into another vehicle, never to be seen again by their people.”
Social media posts in a Facebook post. Claim dated 15 Jan 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

In short

This claim spread on social media around 15 January 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 February 2020, 45 days later. Its rating was “False”.

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