The WORST episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

Every episode of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller!

A 360-degree view of the trafficking world from the point-of-view of the traffickers, law enforcement agents and those caught in the crossfire with access only National Geographic can provide.

Last Updated: 8/21/2025Network: National GeographicStatus: Continuing
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#1 - Million Dollar Highway Heists

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/16/2025

Mariana investigates the explosive world of heists.

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Brides for Sale
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#2 - Brides for Sale

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/9/2025

Mariana hears rumors that young women from Vietnam are being kidnapped and trafficked into China to be sold as unwilling brides. This begins a journey unlike any she's been on, as she's forced to navigate government minders, geopolitical tensions and shadowy criminal networks in a search for the truth. What she finds, with the help of a local reporter, is more shocking than she even imagined.

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The Tranq Dope Underground
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#3 - The Tranq Dope Underground

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/2/2025

Mariana investigates a deadly new fentanyl cocktail called "tranq dope" that's devastating American users. She's spent her career covering the deadly waves of the country's opioid crisis, but she's never seen it this bad. Seeking answers, she heads to Sinaloa, the heart of Mexico's cartel land, to get answers, and makes a shocking discovery.

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Scam City
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#4 - Scam City

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/26/2025

Mariana heads for a lawless region in Southeast Asia to investigate a diabolical scamming operation. Criminal groups are luring workers from across the world with the promise of good jobs, only to hold them prisoner and force them to scam. It's part of a multibillion-dollar industry known as the “pig butchering” scam and countless Americans have fallen victim.

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Cartel USA
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#5 - Cartel USA

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/2025

A cartel murder in a small Georgia town launches Mariana's investigation into the true reach of Mexican organized crime in America. The results are shocking. From hundreds of small-town drug cells to high-level corruption, she exposes how cartels move drugs, launder billions, and even infiltrate law enforcement. It's a growing influence that's fueling violence and addiction across the country.

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Caught in an African Coup
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#6 - Caught in an African Coup

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/20/2024

Mariana's investigation into how gold mining is funding terrorism gets interrupted by a military coup that strands the team in Niger.

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The Drug Mule Scam
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#7 - The Drug Mule Scam

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/13/2024

Mariana investigates a nefarious scam that tricks elderly Americans into becoming unwitting drug mules.

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Illegal Gambling
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#8 - Illegal Gambling

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/6/2024

Mariana, an investigative journalist, looks into a fraudulent scheme deceiving senior citizens in the United States. She hopes to uncover how the scam operates and who is behind it.

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Hash Smugglers
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#9 - Hash Smugglers

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2024

Mariana tracks the illicit path of hashish from Morocco into Europe a world of shadowy dealers, lightning-fast smuggling boats and endless wealth.

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Migrant Smugglers
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#10 - Migrant Smugglers

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2024

Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the US a system fueled by cartels and corruption.

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Black Market Organs
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52 votes

#11 - Black Market Organs

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2023

Mariana investigates the illicit trade in human organs.

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Gangs
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7.32
41 votes

#12 - Gangs

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/9/2023

Mariana journeys into gangland to understand the violence plaguing LA.

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Scams
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128 votes

#13 - Scams

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/2/2020

Mariana dives into the world of international scamming to understand how it all works and meet the outlaws at the heart of this booming industry.

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Tigers
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#14 - Tigers

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/2021

Mariana tackles the black market for tigers and tiger parts, so secretive and dangerous that few have attempted to uncover its ugly details.

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Pimps
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79 votes

#15 - Pimps

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/2020

Mariana embeds with pimps, victims, undercover cops and private investigators to understand the ugly business of illicit sex in America.

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Black Market Marijuana
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#16 - Black Market Marijuana

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/2021

Mariana sets off on a wild journey through California’s black market for weed, which has mushroomed since marijuana legalization four years ago.

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Romance Scams
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69 votes

#17 - Romance Scams

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/2021

Mariana journeys from America’s heartland to the cafes of Ghana to meet the romance scammers fleecing Americans out of millions.

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Crypto Scams
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39 votes

#18 - Crypto Scams

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/16/2023

Mariana embeds with crypto scammers who show her how they make millions.

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Fight Club
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38 votes

#19 - Fight Club

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2023

Mariana investigates underground fight clubs and the push to bring bare knuckle fighting into the mainstream.

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Counterfeiting
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7.44
98 votes

#20 - Counterfeiting

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2020

Mariana journeys deep inside the Peruvian underworld to meet the gangster craftsmen who make and sell the world’s finest counterfeit U.S. dollars.

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Cocaine
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72 votes

#21 - Cocaine

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/2020

Mariana retraces one of the world’s most intractable smuggling routes, following cocaine’s path around the world.

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Amazon Mafia
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7.45
51 votes

#22 - Amazon Mafia

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/26/2022

Mariana travels to the Amazon to track down the criminal networks behind a slew of killings and the illegal destruction of the rainforest.

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Fentanyl
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113 votes

#23 - Fentanyl

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/2020

Mariana goes in search of the new bosses, new routes, new risks and the American communities paying the price for fentanyl’s next wave.

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White Supremacy
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50 votes

#24 - White Supremacy

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/2022

Mariana races to expose a global underground movement hellbent on a violent white supremacist future.

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Assassins
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7.56
16 votes

#25 - Assassins

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2024

What drives a person to make a living out of killing? Mariana goes inside the dark world of contract killers.

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