by L Poole | Mar 10, 2023 | Breaking News, Cybercrime, Featured, Fraud Prevention
Deborah Klein thought she bought a safe and guaranteed investment through an online site, but as it turns out, it was an elaborate scam. “To save that $100,000 it took working eight years, three days a week,” Klein tells CTV News Ottawa, as she looks...
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 | Mar 1, 2023 | Breaking News, Cybercrime, Elder Fraud, Featured, Financial Fraud, Organized Crime, Wire fraud
Unclear how much of nearly half a billion in restitution ordered for Ontario fraud victims is actually paid. arin Smith and her then husband were just trying to pay off their mortgage a little faster. But after the investment opportunity they agreed to in...
by L Poole | Feb 24, 2023 | Breaking News, Cybercrime, Featured
Amsterdam’s cyber crime police team has arrested three young men as part of a major investigation into hacking, data theft, blackmail and money laundering involving the private details of tens of millions of people. The three, aged 21 and 18, were picked up on...
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 | Nov 22, 2022 | Breaking News, Cybercrime, Featured, Fraud Prosecution
A Russian-Canadian man from Ontario is in police custody and awaiting extradition to the United States for his alleged participation in a global ransomware campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Mikhail Vasiliev, a 33-year-old dual Russian and...