Five people have been arrested for allegedly pickpocketing wallets and committing fraud in the greater…
Extortion scams on the rise
Feb. 3, 2021 – March is Fraud Prevention month and with more people working from home and shopping online during the pandemic there has been a huge increase in many different scams. While romance and investment scams continue to have the largest dollar losses in...
Pandemic-related scams dupe more than 8,500 Canadians
The 2020 National Cyber Threat Assessment reported an increase in fraud and extortion among Canadians. Its publication comes at a time when Canadians and much of the Canadian economy have been shifting online—a shift made more rapid by the onset of COVID-19, as is...
Hants County, NS woman sentenced for fraud, extortion charge dismissed
A Hants County, N.S. woman who was originally charged with two counts of extortion has been handed a conditional discharge with probation after pleading guilty to fraud. Tasha Nicole Farmer pleaded not guilty earlier this year to charges of inducing a man with threats...
Employees of Montreal towing company arrested
Police targeted a towing company Tuesday in three early morning raids in Laval, Saint-Jérôme and Montreal, arresting 12 people. In total, police had 13 arrest warrants for employees of Accès Remorquage. They were still searching for the one remaining suspect Tuesday...