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!

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Last Updated: 8/4/2025Network: National GeographicStatus: Continuing

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#1 - The Tranq Dope Underground

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

Mariana investigates the mysterious next wave of America’s opioid crisis.

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#2 - Black Market Meds

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

The high cost of prescription drugs has pushed millions of Americans to the black market and into hands of criminal syndicates looking to cash in.

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#3 - Apes

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2024

Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade in wild apes that have them on the brink of extinction.

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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#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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#8 - 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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#9 - Cartel USA

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

Mariana explores the growing influence of Mexican cartels in the U.S.

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#10 - Scam City

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

Mariana travels to Southeast Asia’s epicenter of romance and investment scams, known as “pig butchering.”

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51 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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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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7.32

127 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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7.37

79 votes

#14 - 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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7.38

72 votes

#15 - 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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7.38

39 votes

#16 - 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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7.39

57 votes

#17 - 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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7.39

69 votes

#18 - 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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7.41

37 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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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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7.44

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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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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7.45

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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7.54

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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7.57

49 votes

#25 - MDMA

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2023

An alarming message from her son's middle school about MDMA sparks van Zeller into high gear. She traces the supply chain of "the love drug" within the Los Angeles clubs back to its booming epicenter in the Netherlands, where a mob-infested underworld has recently murdered a well-known journalist.

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