Phone Extortion

[charlesandterri]

This same sort of thing happened to our Mexican neighbors a year or so ago...it involved the threat to kidnap an offspring. It was so generalized, it was clear that the callers had no real specific information about their family,
On a happier note. This morning our doorbell rang at about 8:00. One of our neighbor's was bringing us a set of our house keys which the maid must have dropped when she left yesterday afternoon. My husband didn't find out exactly when or where she found them but I can only guess that they laid outside our house all night. In California I would never have seen those keys again and would probably have ended up spending a lot of money changing all of our locks.
My personal view of the extortion phone calls is that there are bad guys out there willing to exploit the fear of narco traficantes like the Zetas in order to make some quick money. It is the latest version of dialling for dinero. If you call enough people someone will eventually be scared enough and foolish enough to pay.
I think the threat of tracing the call was a great idea.