Drug Cartel & Hitman Scams
Author: Nichlaus O.
What would you do if you received a text with a death threat? What if the sender claimed to be in a known drug cartel? You would be human to be scared for your life and report to the authorities immediately or even prepare to send the money they want.
However, you may simply be the target of a cartel scam or a hitman scam as others dramatically put it.
Unfortunately, some cammers will go to any length to run their tricks. They will use a death threat if they believe it may get them the money and so pretend to be drug cartel members. Scammers are always after your money; never forget that. Their ultimate goal is a con that pays!
Reports show that this cartel scam is initiated via threatening texts, emails, or calls.
How Cartel Scams Work
Threat of life
You get a text or email threatening your life or that of your family. The text claims you have wasted the time of an escort and her manager wants compensation.
Police in the US flagged such a scam and informed the public to ignore the messages. It appears that this scam follows a very specific pattern:
Your Name, Age, and Address
What makes this scam scary is the fact that the scammers prove to know who you are and where you live by sending you your name, age, and address. But this is information available in the public domain.
If you are on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest or any other social media platform, this is practically free information. If this move doesn't shock you to comply, they take it up a notch.
Organized Gang
You receive a message with the threat that if you don’t send money they will "deal with you."
The sender then claims to be a gang member of a well-known drug cartel. Then some go as far as sending you photos of mutilated body parts with threats of sending men to “deal with you”or saying “your family may get hurt”
Pay to Live
Their message is pay or be targeted. Movies portray stories of just how ruthless gangs can be in dealing with people who fail to pay. So, the scammers are banking on your fear of these fictional movie gangs to scare you to death. Do not fall for their scams.
Protect Yourself From Cartel Scams
- DO NOT engage in any conversation with the sender via email, text, or any other way.Block the sender immediately.
- REPORT to the police immediately who will help you identify the scam pattern and direct you on what to do.
- SEND the scam email to the FTC to be flagged as a scam alert if you are in the USA.
Report a Scam!
Have you fallen for a hoax, bought a fake product? Report the site and warn others!
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