May 22, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - Durham police are investigating after parents and friends of…
Canadians continue to be fooled by website that mimics government agency
Paying hundreds of dollars, Canadians share personal and passport information with online companies March 27, 2018 (Courtesy Of CBC.ca) – More than a year after CBC Toronto wrote about a website that has Canadians sharing personal information, passports and...
Burlington man charged with defrauding Syrian refugees in Qatar
Police say they found 8 victim families who had sent funds to the man totaling more than $200,000 March 15, 2018 (courtesy of The Canadian Press) – A 49-year-old Burlington man is facing fraud and money laundering charges on allegations he promised Syrian...
Federal Court asked to spare former clients of immigration consultant fraudster
Xun “Sunny” Wang was convicted of immigration fraud in 2015. Now some of his clients are at risk of removal from Canada. March 12, 2018 (courtesy of thestar.com) – Former clients of an unlicensed consultant convicted in one of Canada’s biggest...
Thunder Bay police warn of immigration fraud scam after a series of complaints
Thunder Bay police are warning the public about a sophisticated case of fraud targeting immigrants to Canada. In a release issued on Wednesday, police say a complainant reported a pair of simultaneous calls from people purporting to be a Canadian immigration agent and...
‘You’ll get a dead body’: Father was ‘distraught’ over international student’s fake kidnapping
For three days last fall, Mike Zhang didn’t know if his daughter, Juanwen, was dead or alive. At home in China’s Xinjiang province, the businessman could not reach the 20-year-old student who was studying economics at the University of Toronto. Her phone...