Kelowna social worker Robert Riley Saunders faked his credentials, charmed his bosses and stole nearly half a million dollars earmarked for the vulnerable kids in his care
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How three sisters (and their mom) tried to swindle the CRA out of millions
The Saker women were the model of rural ingenuity, running a successful restaurant and gourmet food businesses on Cape Breton Island. What they were mostly cooking? The books.
A homeowner’s worst nightmare
Arif Adnan Syed turned luxury rentals into rooming houses. Catching him was simple. Evicting him was almost impossible.
B.C. regulator accuses woman of $135.4 million Canada-U.S. Ponzi scheme
VANCOUVER – The B.C. Securities Commission accused a woman on Monday of running a Ponzi scheme and raising $135.4 million from at least 800 investors in Canada and the United States.
Watch out: scammer targets Ontario students
Man pretends to be student loan official
Police issue warning to students about rental fraud
Scam making the rounds at U of Waterloo
Banking on his reputation
Victims of Earl Jones’s alleged scam have a new target: the banks
Champagne wishes
He stole $100 million, and lived like a king. Then it all fell apart.
Students targeted by Facebook scammers
Are you a member of a Class of 2013 group? Better make sure it’s for real
A Textbook Scam
For years, it has been standard practice in the college-textbook biz to churn out “new editions” of textbooks, even in such slow-moving fields such as formal logic or metaphysics. In fact, in order to even get a textbook contract with most publishers, profs have to agree to produce x-number of new editions within a set period of time — typically, something like three editions in five years.