Aurora (July 22, 2019) – Nine members of the Figliomeni crime family were taken into…
Multi-layered door-to-door sales scam could cost you your home
“A person visits you and says you have won a class-action lawsuit regarding the installation of your equipment and the money can only be used toward renovations to your home” Ontario’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is shining a light on a multi-layered...
Ontario regulator warns real estate agents to watch for signs of fraudulent home sales
The body that regulates Ontario’s 100,000 real estate agents and brokers is urging them to be more vigilant when verifying the identity of a client, amid a wave of fraudulent home sales and mortgages in the Toronto area. The Real Estate Council of...
Title fraud on the rise, property owners need to protect themselves
It’s difficult to imagine someone could sell a home without the owner knowing – or that a purchase could be made under fraudulent terms without the buyer realizing – but situations like this are happening right now in Canada. The number of people whose homes are being...
6 plaintiffs from Toronto’s Chinese community accuse broker of mortgage fraud
It’s been more than three years, but Yan Ting “Tina” Li says she still remembers meeting Po Yuk “Peggy” Chan at a Thanksgiving party. The 45-year-old mother of four says Chan struck her as compassionate and pious, and took an instant...
How organized crime has mortgaged or sold at least 30 GTA homes without owners’ knowledge
Future of title insurance could be at risk if this real estate fraud trend continues. A year ago, Melissa Walsh says police assured her family it only happened to them. Fraudsters nearly sold her great uncle’s east end Toronto home without the family’s...