Browse all episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

Mariana dives into the world of international scamming to understand how it all works.

Scams

Mariana investigates fentanyl, a contributor to the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history.

Fentanyl

Mariana meets the craftsmen who make and sell the world's finest counterfeit U.S. dollars.

Counterfeiting

Mariana attempts to understand the vanity, insecurity and greed that drives steroid use.

Steroids

Mariana sets out to understand the ugly business of illicit sex in America.

Pimps

Mariana retraces one of the world's most intractable smuggling routes, following cocaine's path around the world - from the Peruvian jungles, to the Colombian coastline, and to the streets of Miami.

Cocaine

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

Tigers

Mariana uncovers a supply chain of firearms being smuggled into the hands of drug cartels.

Guns

Mariana van Zeller investigates underground plastic surgery, from motel-room operations to a deadly revelation about Miami’s discount surgery centers.

Black Market Surgery

Mariana meets the villains behind an exploding online romance scam.

Romance Scams

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

Black Market Marijuana

Mariana van Zeller investigates outlaw motorcycle gangs known as 1% clubs, learning about the bonds of brotherhood that fuel these violent groups.

Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Mariana van Zeller follows a meth superhighway from a cartel-run lab in Sinaloa across the border and into the lives of American users.

Meth

Mariana exposes a racist underground movement hellbent on a violent future.

White Supremacy

Mariana tracks a smuggling route of stolen cars from the U.S. to West Africa.

Stolen Cars

Mariana investigates a new breed of cocaine trafficker: lady bosses.

Cocaine Queens

Mariana investigates the criminals destroying the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon Mafia

Mariana explores the billion-dollar underworld of illegal fishing.

Fish Pirates

A look at the complex inner-workings of the global underworld, black and informal markets.

Black Market Organs

Mariana goes in search of the elusive chemists who make the world's LSD.

Mariana exposes the dangers of the growing and deadly ghost guns industry.

Ghost Guns

Mariana investigates how illicit oil is fueling terrorist groups worldwide.

Terrorist Oil

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.

MDMA

Mariana explores surrogacy's dark side; a babies-for-cash black market.

Black Market Babies

Mariana investigates the lucrative black market for private data.

Cyber Pirates

Mariana journeys into gangland to understand the violence plaguing LA.

Gangs

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

Crypto Scams

Mariana investigates the growing popularity of bare-knuckle fighting.

Fight Clubs

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

Cartel USA

Mariana heads to a Southeast Asian hotbed for scamming, where criminal organizations are holding thousands of hostages and forcing them to scam.

Scam City

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

The Tranq Dope Underground

Mariana travels to Vietnam to investigate reports that young women are being trafficked into China to be sold as unwilling brides.

Brides for Sale

Mariana investigates the global phenomenon of armored car heists, responsible for some of the most brazen and dangerous robberies in the world

Million Dollar Highway Heists

Mariana investigates the growing influence of heavily armed militias.

Inside America's Militias

Mariana investigates the dark underworld of fraudulent addiction treatment programs.

The Great American Rehab Scam

Mariana investigates the global surge in anti-LGBTQ+ violence.

Black Market Love

Mariana investigates the deadly world of illegal street racing.

Underground Street Racing

Mariana investigates the underground market for shark fins.

Shark Hunters

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.

All Episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

Season 1

Scams

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/2/2020

Fentanyl

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/2020

Counterfeiting

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2020

Steroids

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/2020

Pimps

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/2020

Cocaine

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/2020

Tigers

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/2021

Guns

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/2021