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Central Alberta man charged in ‘elaborate’ $2.6M fracking fraud

July 31, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A central Alberta man is facing fraud charges after a five-year investigation and more than $2 million in losses to investors. RCMP say Dane Skinner, 53, misrepresented and advertised a revolutionary fracking product,...

Jury finds Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso guilty of fraud, other charges

June 27, 2018 (Courtesy of CTVnews.ca) - A jury has found Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso guilty on all five charges he was facing including fraud and corruption. Accurso, 66, was impassive as the jury delivered the verdicts on their seventh day of...

Ex-MP received ‘secret’ cut of $12.4M deal in resort town run by his sister, OPP probe alleges

Unsealed police documents from 2014 allege fraud and breach of trust involving Collingwood town hall June 19, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A former Liberal MP may have used his connections with municipal officials in a popular vacation town northwest of Toronto —...

Peter Kroone of Oshawa Found Liable for Construction Fraud

TFC Contracting / The Cement Finisher May 3, 2018 - At Canadian Fraud News, we report on decisions issued by Canadian Courts related to fraud, that are not reported in the main stream media, and that contain legal issues the Canadian public and fraud recovery...

Contractor fraud investigations double in Alberta since 2015

March 22, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - Randy Kwong thought he had done everything right when he hired a contractor to install a metal railing on his deck last summer. Kwong and his wife called references, met the contractor and got an estimate before signing the...

Opponent of Aecon takeover has conviction for perjury, fraud

A man purporting to be a major construction executive, who has been lobbying in Ottawa against the $1.5-billion sale of Canadian infrastructure firm Aecon Group Inc. to a Chinese state-owned enterprise, has convictions for fraud and perjury and is facing new charges...

Thunder Bay, Ont. police charge local man for fraud after 11 complaints

Police in Thunder Bay, Ont are asking the public to be careful and take caution when dealing with private businesses and individuals after they have arrested a Lakehead resident with a number of fraud-related charges. Officials released a written statement saying that...

Former Liberal fundraiser calling key Charbonneau witness in fraud trial

Lino Zambito, the star witness at Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission into construction corruption, to testify at the trial of former Quebec Liberal politicians. Lawyer Oliver Desjardins, representing Marc-Yvan Côté — a former health minister and fundraiser for the...

Windsor police are warning residents of rampant rental scams, having received a number of complaints recently

Windsor Police are once again sending out a reminder about the scheme commonly known as the “rental scam”. Police say that they have recently received a number of complaints, indicating that the scam is again active in our community. In some cases the victims...

Hamilton contractor pleads guilty to 14 counts of fraud, given five years to pay back victims per Judge’s ruling

Some of Richard A. Wilson's unhappy customers have been waiting as long as 10 years to get their money back for work that he didn't do. Their wait isn't entirely over, but as of Friday they're now in a position to get some of it back. The 59-year-old marine contractor...

Online scam uses fake endorsements from Canadian media personalities to sell products

by Deborah McCoy | Dec 14, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Cybercrime, Featured, Online Fraud

Dec. 14, 2018 (Courtesy of ctvnews.ca) - Lisa LaFlamme is not quitting her job to sell skincare products. Neither is Marilyn Denis or Melissa Grelo. But bogus online ads using fake endorsements from several Canadian media personalities have left many shoppers...

Fraud cases reported to police skyrocketing in Edmonton

by Deborah McCoy | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Fraud Prevention

Dec. 12, 2018 (Courtesy of o.canada.com ) - Incidents of fraud reported to police in Edmonton continue to climb year-over-year, peaking last year at close to 7,000 cases, new police data released Wednesday shows. Over a five-year period between 2013 and 2017, fraud...

Cyber crooks increasingly targeting home devices

by Deborah McCoy | Dec 6, 2018 | Cybercrime, Featured, Online Fraud

Dec. 6, 2018 (courtesy of CBC.ca) - Cyber criminals are shifting their attention from traditional computers to internet-connected devices in Canadian homes, says the government's cyber security agency. In its cyber threat assessment for 2018, the newly created...

Coast Capital Savings Warns of Text and Email Scams Making the Rounds

by Deborah McCoy | Dec 6, 2018 | Bank Fraud, Featured, Financial Fraud

December 6, 2018 - Coast Capital Savings is warning its credit union members of phishing scams, circulating via text message and email. Messages claim to be from the credit union, but of course are fake, in an effort to extra personal banking data and information. The...

Edmonton woman, 68, charged in relation to $1.4M payroll fraud

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 14, 2018 | Employee Fraud, Featured

Nov. 14, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A 68-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with fraud and theft in relation to a seven-year payroll fraud worth $1.4 million. The woman is thought to have falsified paycheques for more than 500 former employees of an Edmonton...

Financial adviser ‘manipulated’ brain injured senior into lending him $200K, police allege

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Investment Fraud

Nov. 13, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A Winnipeg financial adviser is under police investigation for allegedly manipulating his cognitively impaired 78-year-old client into lending him $200,000 under "false pretence," according to documents filed in court....

Former WestJet employee pleads guilty to defrauding airline of $138K in travel credits

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 8, 2018 | Employee Fraud, Featured

Nov. 8, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A former WestJet employee has admitted to defrauding the company of more than $138,000 by issuing travel dollars to his friends and others who would pay him for the credits. Terance Gough pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 on...

OCS warns customers of data accessed in Canada Post breach

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 7, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured, Online Fraud

Nov. 7, 2018 ( Courtesy of citynews.ca) - The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) said the shipping information of some of its customers was accessed by an outside source through the Canada Post delivery tracking tool. In a letter sent to the customers on Wednesday, the OCS...

BCSC alleges $47 million investment fraud by insurance group’s top officers

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 7, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Insurance Fraud, Investment Fraud

Nov. 7, 2018 - The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a notice of hearing alleging that three leaders of a once fast-growing insurance group committed fraud by getting hundreds of people to purchase unsecured loan agreements. The BCSC alleges...

$500Gs cargo redirection scheme, identity fraud leads to charges

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured, Identity Fraud

Nov. 1, 2018 (courtesy of Torontosun.com) - Toronto Police are looking for a cache of stolen goods believed to be hidden in public storage lockers in the GTA. In August, police started an investigation, dubbed Project Groundhog, into a cargo redirection scheme...

RCMP victimized by $100,000 credit card cloning scam

by Deborah McCoy | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud

Nov.1 2018 (courtesy of CBC.ca) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has changed the way it handles credit cards for gasoline purchases after it fell victim to organized criminals and the fraud went undetected for months. By the time the RCMP realized one of its gas...

SNC-Lavalin hearing begins for fraud, bribery allegations

by Admin | Oct 30, 2018 | Corporate Frauds, Featured

Oct 30, 2018 - Charges of bribery and fraud against SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. were tested for the first time in a Montreal courtroom on Monday as prosecutors began laying out their case against Canada’s biggest engineering firm in a preliminary hearing expected to last...

Milton psychic accused of scamming victim of $60,000 and ‘witchcraft’

by Admin | Oct 29, 2018 | Featured, Psychic Fraud

Oct. 29, 2018 (courtesy of Globalnews.ca) - Halton Regional Police have arrested and charged a 32-year-old Milton woman, who works as a psychic, for fraud after she allegedly scammed a victim of over $60,000. Dorie “Madeena” Stevenson of Milton was charged with...

CRA Scams: An Organized Operation In Mumbai Is To Blame For One Of The Biggest Scams In Canada’s History

by Admin | Sep 24, 2018 | Canadian Revenue Agency Scam, Consumer Fraud, Featured

Sept. 24, 2018 (Courtesy of Narcity.com) - Our cell phones go off daily with calls from telemarketers and scammers. How many times have you "won a free cruise" or been asked to buy products over the phone? Too many to count, right? We're sick of it. Thanks to an...

Regina woman, Alena Pastuch , accused of $5M fraud must represent herself at her trial

by Admin | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Investment Fraud

Sept. 18, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca ) - A Regina woman accused of defrauding investors in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia of millions will have to represent herself at trial. Alena Pastuch was charged with fraud, theft and laundering the proceeds of crime...

Trial delayed for Regina woman accused of $5M fraud

by Admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Investment Fraud

Sept. 11, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - The trial for a Regina businesswoman accused of defrauding investors millions was supposed to begin Monday morning, but the plan was derailed when Alena Pastuch's lawyer advised the court he could no longer represent her due to a...

Local union sues former chairperson over fraud allegations

by Admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Employee Fraud, Featured

Sept. 11, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A local union is suing a former employee, alleging she wrote herself cheques and forged signatures to steal more than $100,000 from the union's coffers over her time with the organization. In a statement of claim filed in the...

‘Nowhere to live and nowhere to go’: MUN student from Ontario hit by rental scam

by Admin | Sep 10, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured, Online Fraud

Sept. 10 ,2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca ) - Imagine moving to Newfoundland from another province to study at Memorial University, only to discover upon your arrival that the people at your new rental property have no idea who you are, or what you're talking about. That's...

Treadz Auto owner pleads guilty to $2M vehicle consignment fraud

by Admin | Sep 7, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured, Recent Articles

Sept 7, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca ) - A Calgary man who bilked dozens of Calgary car owners out of more than $2 million has pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud over $5,000. Sean O'Brien was facing 164 fraud and theft charges in connection to his vehicle consignment...

St. Francis Xavier University accuses ex-Coady finance director of misappropriating at least $243K

by Deborah McCoy | Sep 6, 2018 | Employee Fraud, Featured

Sept. 6, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca ) - St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., is suing the former finance director of the school's Coady International Institute, accusing him of misappropriating at least $243,000. The statement of claim filed in Nova...

Father, son, daughter sentenced in $12.5M lotto fraud case

by Deborah McCoy | Sep 5, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured

Sept. 5, 2018 (Courtesy of CTVnews.ca ) - Three family members who won nearly $12.5 million on a free lottery ticket they had duped a customer at their variety store out of were sentenced Tuesday. Jun-Chul Chung was sentenced to seven years in prison. His daughter,...

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