A Bank of Montreal customer is going public about how the bank wired $87,500 of his inheritance money into the hands of a scammer.
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Millions of scam emails sent daily looking to scoop up personal information
MONTREAL – Digitally connected young Canadians have become regular targets of phishing scams — fraudsters trying to steal personal information for financial gain, according to a new survey by Visa Canada.
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Agent warns of rental scam
A real estate agent wants to warn the public about a rental scam that almost involved a vacant home listed for sale.
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Realtor takes stand as fraud trial continues
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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Top 10 investor threats expanded to 15
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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Victims in Temple rental scam say they were strung along with lies, plan to sue
Dawn Clowater, her husband and their eight-year-old daughter and dog have moved in with family.
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Would be renters out thousands of dollars in apparent scam
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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Edmonton woman pleads guilty to defrauding 49 people in $1.8 million Ponzi scheme
EDMONTON – A 42-year-old Edmonton woman should spend six years in prison for using her data entry job at the Workers’ Compensation Board to perpetrate a $1.8-million Ponzi scheme, a Crown prosecutor argued Wednesday.
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Fake gold jewelry scam hits northeast Calgary
Fake gold jewelry is being passed off as real to unsuspecting buyers in northeast Calgary mall parking lots. (CBC)
Several people in Calgary’s northeast are reported to have fallen prey to a scam involving fake gold jewelry.
A Middle Eastern woman driving a white vehicle with several people inside has been peddling the counterfeit bling in the parking lots at Marlborough Mall and Sunridge Mall, witnesses said.
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Homeowners stung by botched ‘rent to own’ scheme
A Calgary couple is warning home sellers to beware of real estate rent to own schemes, where unlicensed agents offer to find buyers to rent or lease to own homes.
“It sounded exactly like what we were looking for,” said homeowner Maxine Henry. “But it was awful, and you feel awful for having been duped into such a scheme.”
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