by Admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Cybercrime, Recent Articles
Huntsville resident Patricia Friend accepted a Facebook friend request in late January from someone named “Stephanie” she believed to be the daughter of a recently deceased friend. When she received the request, she thought it was a nice gesture from someone whose...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2018 | Online Fraud, Recent Articles
Following Facebook’s announcement last week that it was banning all advertising for binary options, cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, a Canadian regulator has called on Google to do the same. Jason Roy, a senior investigator at the Manitoba Securities...
by Admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Cybercrime, Recent Articles
Ontario Provincial Police in East Algoma are investigating three separate cases of an online sex scam involving blackmail. Constable Bev Gauthier says the first complaint came from Elliot Lake in early December, while the other two are from Blind River. She says the...
by Admin | Dec 1, 2017 | Identity Fraud, Recent Articles
A Penticton woman is out almost $10,000, after falling for what she now believes was an online scam, police have reported. Last week, the local resident received a message over Facebook from an unknown person who requested money. “It is another questionable action on...
by Admin | Aug 17, 2017 | Recent Articles, Relationship Fraud
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...