Overview
- Mexico’s SESNSP reports a 20.8% year‑over‑year rise in the average daily extortion rate for Jan–Sept 2025, while daily 089 complaints increased 85% to 647 after July’s national strategy, logging 59,283 calls with 74% not consummated and 10% resulting in payment or actionable data.
- Omar García Harfuch says coordinated operations produced 386 detentions across 19 states, and authorities opened 1,986 investigation files from July 6 to Sept. 28 under the anti‑extortion push.
- Puebla officials warn of international‑number spoofing tied to vishing and fake job offers; the cyber police handled 111 such cases Jan–Sept, 2,178 attempts were thwarted via 089 guidance, and more than 12 million pesos in transfers were prevented in September.
- Peru’s police registry shows 20,705 extortion complaints from January to September 2025, a 28.8% increase versus the same period in 2024, averaging roughly one new report every 19 minutes, with Lima Metropolitana recording 8,671 cases.
- Despite rising complaints in Peru, INPE data show only 32 more people imprisoned for extortion since 2018, and analysts urge stronger criminal investigation capacity, better technology and tighter coordination to convert reports into convictions.