The goal of this research is to analyse a relatively new form of human trafficking, i.e. exploitative sham marriages, and reveal the relationship between this form of exploitation and the crime of trafficking in human beings. In aiming to fulfil this goal, policy and secondary data analysis (policies that are put into practice, research that has been conducted, and statistics that can be accessible) has been conducted which serves as a basis for disclosing and evaluating the situation of exploitative sham marriages in the general context of human trafficking.