A judge has sentenced a 48-year-old Toronto firefighter to six months in prison for benefits…
Man convicted in $600,000 Canada Revenue fraud to be sentenced in September
July 19 2018 (Courtesy of www.edmontonjournal.com) – A tax-preparer found responsible for filing $2.9 million in false claims to the Canada Revenue Agency will be sentenced in September. The result of filing nearly $3 million in false claims was a fraud of about...
Fraudsters ‘spoof’ RCMP’s phone number in tax scam
May 16, 2018 (Courtesy of the Ottawa Citizen ) – The RCMP isn’t making calls claiming taxpayers owe big and will be under arrest if they don’t pay up via money transfer, the force is warning. It’s a scam and the calls, in which fraudsters impersonate police...
The CRA has denied over $7 billion in tax claims due to this one scam
April 10, 2018 (courtesy of Globalnews.ca) – Who doesn’t like a scenario in which doing good is also good for your wallet? But sometimes the personal gain from doing good is too good to be true. That’s the case in a popular scam that has caused the Canada...
Bitcoin-based tax fraud ramping up in Canada, expert says
March 28, 2018 (Courtesy of itworld.com) – Fraud campaigns during tax season are nothing new, but according to the VP and country manager for Symantec Canada, it’s at an “all-time peak” in Canada, and fraudsters have fallen in love with a new tool: Bitcoin....
University student sentenced to 13 months for ‘absurdly easy’ $41M fraud
March 28,2017 (courtesy of the torontosun.com )- An Ontario Superior Court judge called it “absurdly easy” for a University of Toronto student to dupe the Canada Revenue Agency out of more than $41 million in HST corporate refunds. Justice Shaun Nakatsuru sentenced...