by Admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Cybercrime, Featured
Local residents have received emails claiming to be a hitman hired to kill them. The email writer claims to have had a change of heart and offers to turn over the name of the person who commissioned the killing in exchange for bitcoins, a digital, or virtual,...
by Admin | Jan 16, 2018 | Investment Fraud, Recent Articles, Uncategorized
A city couple experiencing financial difficulties used money for the special needs hockey team they founded to finance their own lives, a prosecutor said Monday as he outlined the Crown’s theory in the case of David and Catherine Tuck. The Tucks, who founded the...
by Admin | Dec 20, 2017 | Financial Fraud, Recent Articles, Uncategorized
A Peterborough woman was scammed, police say, and was almost out more than $15,000 after being informed she had won $4 million in a lottery last summer. Police say she would have lost the money had a relative not noticed that she fell for a scam. Police say on July...
by Admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Consumer Fraud, Recent Articles
A man is facing additional charges in an ongoing investigation into a student housing rental scam in Peterborough, Ont. Peterborough police charged the man earlier this week with seven counts each of fraud under $5,000 and obtaining by false pretences. Investigators...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2017 | Employee Fraud, Recent Articles
Former Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro has been released from jail pending an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada for his conviction on election fraud. Del Mastro’s lawyer said the former Conservative MP was released last week after applying to the Supreme...