eight young workers were confirmed dead in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call centreUS and Mexican officials confirmed the brutal story that unfolded late last month when relatives of the youths reported them missing after they did not return from work in an office near the western city of Guadalajara. Suspicions rose last week when heaps of hacked-up body parts were found in plastic bags.
Officials confirmed the cartel now operates call centres that scam money from Americans and Canadians through fake offers to buy their timeshares. An activist group for families of the disappeared, "Por Amor a Ellxs" — roughly, "For Love of Them" — said there are around 15,000 missing people in Jalisco, out of a total of about 112,000 nationwide.
Brian E. Nelson, the US undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement in April that the "CJNG's deep involvement in timeshare fraud in the Puerto Vallarta area and elsewhere, which often targets elderly US citizens and can defraud victims of their life savings, is an important revenue stream supporting the group's overall criminal enterprise.