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 1, 2018 | Cybercrime, Recent Articles
Watching her husband frantically try to get iTunes cards to pay off the fraudsters holding his computer hostage was hard for Peggy Mercer to watch. “He was almost obsessive. He said, ‘I have to get my computer back. I have to,’” she said. “I agree he is partly to...
by Admin | Jun 2, 2016 | Consumer Fraud, Financial Fraud, Relationship Fraud
We have been hearing about multiple cases of phone scams. The newest version of this scheme involves purchasing iTunes cards which are then sold for double the price to criminals in China, said Staff Sgt. Rob Cowan of Waterloo Regional Police’s fraud branch....