By Catherine Powell
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In the past few years, I've written a number of posts about scams used to dupe the public out of their hard-earned money. Some of the cons were simplicity itself, while others were quite sophisticated. While some of these swindles had been perpetrated by individuals, others employed a tag team approach. However, when an organization with thousands of criminal members takes over vast call centers to bilk senior citizens out of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, this takes the con to a whole new level. In order to level the playing field, I'm going to describe one of the world's most sophisticated con jobs ever perpetrated on the American public by a Mexican cartel more usually associated with the production and distribution of illicit drugs.
