A Medicine Hat woman has been charged with fraud as police look into a major home purchase this month that was paid for with a cheque that bounced.
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A Medicine Hat woman has been charged with fraud as police look into a major home purchase this month that was paid for with a cheque that bounced.
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A Calgary contractor has been charged with fraud and numerous offenses under provincial consumer protection legislation after five Calgary area couples, including one from Okotoks, were left with unfinished home renovations.
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A Lethbridge Realtor testified Thursday that Christopher Burke passed himself off as an RCMP officer when he tried to buy a home in the city in 2011.
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The North American Securities Administrators Association expanded its top 10 investor threats to 15 this year to accommodate new small-business scams.
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A single mother in Red Deer is sounding the alarm about a contractor who took her money and gave her nothing in return.
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Dawn Clowater, her husband and their eight-year-old daughter and dog have moved in with family.
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About a dozen Calgary families are out thousands of dollars after they responded to a Kijiji ad for a rental home only to discover they were all expecting to move into the same house.
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An Alberta businessman behind a number of development projects that saw thousands of investors lose their savings has been charged with fraud.
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A greater need for housing in Grande Prairie could very well be fuelling recent online rental market scams regarding properties throughout the city, says one Grande Prairie-based realtor.
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The good news: Fewer borrowers are lying on their mortgage applications. The bad news: The remaining cheaters may be pulling a more dangerous scam. Instead of inflating their home prices, they are now inflating their incomes and assets, according to researchers at CoreLogic.
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