by L Poole | Mar 14, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Identity Fraud, Mortgage Fraud
CBC News has learned exclusive details behind an alleged title fraud in January that led to 3 arrests. It began as a typical phone call for Niroosan (Niro) Vivekanantharajah — someone who found him on Google, asking for his help in closing a home...
by L Poole | Feb 21, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Mortgage Fraud, Real Estate Fraud
“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...
by L Poole | Feb 16, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Mortgage Fraud
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...
by L Poole | Feb 15, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Mortgage Fraud
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...
by L Poole | Feb 13, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, 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...
by L Poole | Jan 25, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Mortgage Fraud
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...