by Admin | Jan 21, 2018 | Cybercrime, Recent Articles
A North Vancouver man is out $3,000 after scammers pretending to be tax collectors convinced him to pay his supposed bill to the taxman with the cryptocurrency bitcoin. The scam happened Thursday when the man received a phone call from someone who said he was an...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2018 | Recent Articles, Securities Fraud, Uncategorized
A woman convicted of hiding infant remains in a storage unit dodged an unrelated fraud allegation last fall. Andrea Giesbrecht, then 43, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in July 2017 for concealing the remains of six infants in a U-Haul locker in...
by Admin | Nov 8, 2017 | Consumer Fraud, Recent Articles, Uncategorized
In a new instance of bitcoin negatively affecting consumers, the old-school Canadian Revenue Scam using the high-tech currency has scammed 40 new victims. Police in York Region said 40 victims in the community have sent more than $300,000 to fraudsters using Bitcoin...
by Admin | May 25, 2016 | Featured, Financial Fraud
Two men who were caught in the act of removing a skimming device from an ATM in Tamarac have been arrested, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Marc Chemali, 29, and Michelangelo Mongelli, 31, both from Canada, were taken into custody Tuesday and were each facing...