“The FBI warns the timeshare fraud schemes have been linked to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel in Mexico.”
William Dimitruk, a 73-year-old retired truck driver, lost over $50,000 to a fake buyer for his Florida timeshare. The fees, the taxes and the phony escrow firm all ran back to a DNS provider tied to dozens of look-alike realty domains going back four years. Some of those domains are still up. The call center workers who tried to quit ended up dead, and the scam sites outlived them.