by L Poole | Mar 9, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Fraud Prosecution, From Investigation Counsel PC, Judgements
Staff Reporter, Canadian Fraud News Inc. On January 20, 2023, the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld a 10 month jail sentence imposed by Justice Creagh in Edmonton against Zimbabwe immigrant Urthurton Phiri. The 10 month jail sentence resulted from a $15,00 fraud related...
by L Poole | Mar 8, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Featured, Online Fraud, Romance Fraud
Staff Reporter, Canadian Fraud News Inc. On January 29, 2021, Justice Cameron Gunn sentenced New Brunswick native Amanda Diane Durette-Acker to 12 months jail for perpetrating a $130,000 on-line dating fraud on an Edmonton man. The published decision was not released...
by L Poole | Feb 3, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
The founder of a defunct cryptocurrency business was sentenced on Tuesday to more than eight years in prison for defrauding investors and customers out of millions of dollars by marketing a virtual currency called My Big Coin with lies and half-truths. Federal...
by L Poole | Jan 12, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Cybercrime, Featured, Online Fraud
Recent case in St. John’s court highlights pitfalls of online marketplaces. A provincial court judge has agreed to postpone — again — the sentencing of a St. John’s man found guilty of scamming people on Facebook Marketplace, though the judge was clear he wasn’t...
by L Poole | Dec 21, 2022 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Featured
New York: Five Indian men and a woman have been charged in connection with a transnational technical support scam that targeted more than 20,000 victims, many of them elderly, in the US and Canada. Gagan Lamba, 41, and Harshad Madaan, 34, from New Delhi; Jayant...
by L Poole | Dec 20, 2022 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Featured
In a rare preferred indictment that could have a ripple effect across Canada, five contractors in Manitoba have been charged in a conspiracy to commit fraud in social housing renovation projects. The federal government’s Competition Bureau announced Monday that the...