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A former president and a former treasurer of a Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Vaughan have been charged with fraud, police say. York Regional Police said officers launched an investigation in January 2022 after receiving information that a former president of the...

The Iqaluit RCMP charged twin sisters from Kingston, Ontario, and their mother with two counts of fraud of over $5,000 for claiming Inuit status when they were not Inuit. According to the RCMP, sisters Amira and Nadya Gill and Karima Manji, who previously claimed to...

A B.C. woman has won the right to stay in her home after convincing a judge that the mortgage her son took out on the property was obtained fraudulently. Winnifred "Winnie" Wai Wai Chan told the B.C. Supreme Court she had no knowledge of the mortgage until the lender...

An Ontario woman is warning others after a fraudster impersonating a Service Canada employee convinced her to empty out $50,000 from her bank account. Anne Galt of Renfrew, Ont. told CTV News Toronto Thursday that she got a strange phone call in August from someone...

Canada has seen an increase in fraudulent activities within the automotive, credit card, and mortgage sectors, according to the latest Fraud Trends Report by Equifax Canada. Over the past year alone, fraudulent applications have spiked by 28% in the automotive sector,...

Canadians who are desperate to get on the housing ladder, buy a car, or secure a new credit card may be committing serious fraud in the belief that it’s only a minor tweaking of their financial status. Equifax Canada says that its research suggests an uptick in...

A broken phone fraud circulating in local communities prompted an alert from police to the public, with tips on not becoming a victim. Police say victims receive a text message from someone claiming to be a loved one saying they dropped or damaged their cell phone and...

Morgan Stanley was sued for at least $750 million by private equity firms who claim they were defrauded in a deal to invest in a credit agreement for a luxury high-speed rail line. Certares Management LLC and Knighthead Capital Management LLC filed suit Monday in New...

A former B.C. doctor turned cannabis stock promoter has admitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) he participated in a massive, billion-dollar stock fraud scheme partly orchestrated from Vancouver via a network of offshore shell...

A recent survey conducted by TransUnion reveals that nearly half of Canadians (49 per cent) have reported being targeted by a fraud scheme recently. According to the survey, there has been a 40 per cent increase in digital fraud attempts originating in Canada and...

Sarnia-Lambton residents are being warned about what's being called an "alarming rise" in the number of Emergency Grandparent Scams in Canada. The Sarnia Police Service recently issued a public release advising residents to be cautious when answering phone...

I've never told anyone this story because of the shame I feel. Only my partner knows. One afternoon, the telephone rang. It was a dreary fall day and I was alone in the house. The caller seemed to have a great deal of information about me. In an authoritative voice he...

Peel Regional Police have arrested and charged a 30-year-old Vaughan, Ont., resident in connection to a series of health care benefits scams, which took place over a 22-month period. Anand Pareshkumar Amin was arrested for what investigators from the Fraud Bureau are...

Peel Regional Police have made an arrest in what authorities call an extensive healthcare benefits scam that saw a loss of over $600,000. Authorities said the alleged fraud was carried out over 22 months, beginning in February 2020. Investigators took one person into...

Consumers and businesses are being forced to fend off fraud attempts more often, with some people getting so bombarded that they’ve become afraid to even answer their phones. Digital fraud is climbing, with close to half of Canadians saying they’ve been targeted by a...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Sung Oh Chung, of Thornhill, Ontario, was sentenced in the Toronto Courthouse on September 12, 2023, to a conditional sentence of two years less a day and a fine of $681,235, after...

Police on Montreal's South Shore have arrested two suspects who allegedly tried to scam an elderly woman. Instead, she turned the tables and helped police catch them. Brayen Sneyder Hernandez-Pinzon, 24, appeared in the Longueuil courthouse on fraud and drug...

The co-founder of the fraudulent OneCoin cryptocurrency, a massive pyramid scheme that amassed more than $4 billion from millions of investors worldwide, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Karl Greenwood, 46, who orchestrated the multibillion-dollar...

Amid a turbulent economic backdrop, nearly half (49%) of Canadians have reported being targeted by fraud recently, according to new data from TransUnion. During the second quarter, fraudsters in Canada have ramped up their scam attempts against telecommunications (up...

A 48-year-old woman is being sought by police after several banks in Durham Region were allegedly defrauded. Durham police say the woman went to the banks with fake identification between February 2022 and August 2023 to withdraw and transfer various amounts totaling...

Ottawa police say they’ve seen an increase in reports of fake ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s sold-out Toronto shows due to what they’re describing as online ticket scams. Demand is high for next year’s six shows in Toronto, the only Canadian stop on Swift’s global...