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FBI 'Sex Tour' Site Lured Predators

Via The Smoking Gun.

In an undercover operation targeting Americans seeking overseas sex tours, the FBI last year set up a web site that purported to offer "exotic excursions" to the Philippines and Thailand, where pedophiles often travel for sex with boys and girls.

Investigators last year established Wicked Adventures Travel and promoted the site in news groups like alt.pedophilia.boys and alt.sex.fetish.tinygirls. We've mirrored the FBI's undercover site, so click here to surf through the bureau's online handiwork. In their news group postings, agents with the FBI's Maryland-based Innocent Images Task Force wrote that the firm catered to clients "who want to travel to Exotic destinations accompanied by your specified companion," adding that "we provide you with confidentiality and safety as a top priority."

While not explicitly saying that it arranges sex with minors, the Wicked Adventures site uses meta tags in its html pages to presumably lure prospective clients.

posted by Fergie @ 5/11/2006 12:02:00 PM