by Winnipeg Free Press | Mar 19, 2021 | Recent Articles
March 19, 2021 – Bitcoin, the most popular of the over 1,300 cryptocurrencies, is currently one of the biggest newsmakers in the financial world. Unfortunately, for all the good that has come from it, there have been negative stories of its use in scams. In...
by CTV News | Mar 3, 2021 | Recent Articles
March 3, 2021 (Toronto) – Toronto police say they have laid a number of charges following a year-long employment fraud investigation where victims deposited fake cheques before shelling out their own cash. In a news release, police said that in February of last...
by staff | Feb 3, 2021 | Fraud Prevention
Feb. 3, 2021 – British Columbia police are warning the public about a threatening letter scam occurring in the Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam areas over the past week. The letter requests the receiver of the letter to send Bitcoin by scanning a QR Code at the...
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...