by North Shore News | Feb 27, 2021 | Daily News
Feb. 27, 2021 (British Columbia) – A former Squamish Nation councillor is on trial this week in North Vancouver provincial court, charged with allegedly defrauding and stealing almost $1 million from the Indigenous government whose interests she was supposed to...
by Global News | Feb 9, 2021 | Phone Scam
Feb. 9, 2021 – The Better Business Bureau is warning British Columbians about a recent uptick in Amazon scam calls. Karla Laird, mainland British Columbia spokesperson for the BBB, says the organization has received a recent flood of reports about the scam....
by Admin | Feb 6, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Recent Articles
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has fined and permanently banned Lynne Rae Nickford (a.k.a. Lynne Rae Zlotnik) from B.C.’s capital markets for fraud. In August 2017, the panel found that Nickford convinced 13 investors to loan money to or...
by Admin | Jan 29, 2018 | Corporate Frauds, Recent Articles
A B.C. law firm recently paid out a six-figure sum — to a fraudster. The sophisticated scam, known as a social engineering fraud, showed the degree to which scammers today will go to swindle law firms and their clients. The Law Society of British Columbia said the...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2017 | Featured, Investment Fraud, Uncategorized
15 years ago, Louise Field turned to Simon Jaques for financial investment advice after her father recommended him. She handed the broker at Mackie Research Capital over a million dollars stemming from an inheritance. Little did Field and her husband know, that by...