A Mexican Drug Cartel Runs Time-Share Scam, Part 1

The Perfect Scam

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True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When James receives a call from a company offering to sell his Lake Tahoe time-share, he jumps at the chance to off-load it. They find a buyer in Mexico and draw up a contract through an escrow company in New York City. James is told he only has to pay a fee to transfer the property, which will be reimbursed by the buyer. Unexpected fees and expenses continue to pile up, but James does not get any closer to completing the sale. Little does he know that his time-share sale is connected to a dangerous Mexican drug cartel.

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0:00.0	This week on The Perfect Scam.
0:03.0	I'm not saying.
0:04.0	Why don't you?
0:05.0	Why don't you answer my calls?
0:07.0	I don't care if your wife is at the hospital.
0:10.0	To be honest with you, I don't give a damn.
0:13.0	But you know why I do give a damn?
0:15.0	It's your funny, and my name is written all over it.
0:18.0	Do you understand?
0:21.0	Yes.
0:22.0	I'mated now.
0:24.0	Welcome back to the perfect scam.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. A scam so powerful, so profitable, that a
0:36.5	Mexican cartel is switching from drug sales to call centers. So dangerous that
0:42.1	dead bodies were recently found outside one of those
0:45.0	call centers, and so easy that millions of Americans could be targeted in their homes from
0:51.2	thousands of miles away, all because at one point they fell in love with a vacation spot.
0:58.0	Roughly 10 million Americans own a time share.
1:02.0	Many of them wish they didn't. The fees are high, the credits go unused. But escaping
1:07.9	timeshare contracts can be very frustrating, much harder than consumers think.
1:13.0	And that frustration is an opening for these ruthless criminals.
1:18.0	Today's special report on the cartel connection to timeshare fraud is so important.
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