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Man, woman sought in GTA high-end vehicle frauds valued at over $500Kby Michael Talbot on May 21, 2025 at 6:16 pm
Peel Regional Police are trying to track down two suspects who allegedly used phony documents to fraudulently acquire high-end vehicles valued at more than half-a-million dollars. Police say between April 11 and May 5, 2025, the suspects attended auto dealerships across the Greater Toronto Area and used “fictitious and fraudulent information to secure auto financing,
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Toronto — Fraudulent investment scheme ends with guilty pleaon April 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm
In 2022, the Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Toronto initiated an investigation, after receiving information from the Ontario Securities Commission. The investigation confirmed that three investors had been defrauded through the purchase of shares in a private placement of Cobalt Blockchain. However, these shares were never purchased on behalf of the investors. On March 12, 2024, the RCMP charged Harvinder Singh Bhoi, who is the CEO and President of Asset Real Capital (ARC) with one count of fraud over $5,000.
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Fraud investigation: York police chase man stealing delivered packages from Markham homes in targeted schemeby thenewsroom@metroland.com (Metroland Staff) on April 28, 2025 at 6:43 pm
According to police, the suspect would shop online using the victim’s credit card information and the packages would be delivered with the victim’s name, but wrong email address and phone number.
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Toronto man, 81, charged with fraud after York police say real estate lawyer refused to return $500K to clientby thenewsroom@metroland.com (Metroland Staff) on April 24, 2025 at 4:44 pm
The investigation began last May after the victim did not receive money owed to them following a business transaction in December 2023, say police.
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Markham woman, 19, charged after Perth business defrauded of $5,000 with bad cheques: OPPby thenewsroom@metroland.com (Metroland Staff) on April 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm
The investigation began last October by Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Perth County detachment.
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Milton — Ontario RCMP shuts down prolific Cyber-fraudsterson February 20, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Two Toronto residents are facing criminal charges after allegedly defrauding hundreds of Canadian victims out of millions of dollars. The couple are believed to have used technology that allowed them to conceal their phone number in order to pose as bank, government or police employees to deceive their victims and trick them out of their hard-earned savings.
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Mississauga resident charged by OPP following investigation into alleged fraud involving COVID-19 vaccine databaseon October 30, 2024 at 12:56 pm
According to Ontario Provincial Police, the investigation revealed about 150 falsified entries in the database.
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Toronto fraudster sentenced to U.S. prison for running $21-million diamond swindleby Adrian Humphreys on October 22, 2024 at 8:01 pm
‘I charged a large amount of money on my credit card to purchase diamonds. I never received any diamonds just excuses. I had to sell my company to pay off the debt,’ a victim says
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Toronto office shooting: Artist says ‘predatory fraudster’ stole his life’s work worth $1.2 millionby National Post Staff on June 27, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Alijan Alijanpour, 68, also alleges Arash Missaghi, who was shot dead last week, forged a $1.2 million mortgage in his name