American Express (through Hilton HHonors and other American Express Credit Cards) is funding the Mexican Mafia, drug cartel and other fraudulent and illegal activities by enabling credit card fraud.  They are doing so by allowing charges on credit cards to go through from criminals without truly questioning the charges when they are disputed.  The money is being funneled to the Mexican Mafia and drug cartels based upon evidence from a past employee of the "merchant".  American Express has the power to not let charges go through when they are disputed but they ignore the facts and won't reverse charges unless the "merchant' is okay with it; regardless of the evidence provided.  They take a blind eye hiding behind "we don't get involved in legal matters".  American Express even approves the charges when the documents they are going by are proved to be illegal and fraudulent.

The Mexican Mafia and drug cartel have a huge well knitted scam set up in Cabo San Lucas to sell timeshares to people saying they will purchase your existing timeshare (which never happens) if you buy theirs using your credit card.  Not only is this not real, and are they funneling the money as noted but their contracts violate Mexican laws regarding non-cancellation clauses, missing information (including a cancellation clause) and by using illegal sales tactics.  This is extremely pervasive as they are scamming Americans every day, hurting individuals directly financially, and hurting individuals, groups and society by ensuring funding for drug trading and the Mexican Mafia.  American Express ignores all legal and illegal facts, illegal activities and more. They need to take the time to look at the facts of the situation and the evidence provided and not allow these transactions to go through simply because your credit card was provided “freely”. 

Once the merchants are identified as criminals or at least when the contract is determined to be illegal these transactions should be stopped.  American Express also need to put a system in place recognize merchants with past criminal history to disallow transactions from these "merchants" at the time of “sale".  American Express fails to look at anything beyond asking if your credit card was provided “freely” and they also hide behind illegal contract terms (non-cancellation, non-refundable clauses) when those documents and those statements are illegal and invalid for timeshare contracts in Mexico.  American Express should be aware of these required terms considering the number of timeshare complaints that have occurred from Mexico and if not they should at least use the information when it is brought to their attention.