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‘All of us can be harmed’: Investigation reveals hundreds of Canadians have phoney degrees

September 10, 2017

A Marketplace investigation of the world’s largest diploma mill has discovered many Canadians could be putting their health and well-being in the hands of nurses, engineers, counsellors and other professionals with phoney credentials.

Fake diplomas are a billion-dollar industry, according to experts, and Marketplace obtained business records of its biggest player, a Pakistan-based IT firm called Axact. The team spent months combing through thousands of degree transactions, cross referencing personal information with customers’ social media profiles.

The investigation revealed more than 800 Canadians could have purchased a fake degree.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: fraud, phoney professionals

5 things consumers should know about Equifax hacking of personal information

September 8, 2017

Credit monitoring company Equifax says it was hit between mid-May and July by a high-tech heist of sensitive personal information from about 143 million Americans, including an unspecified number of Canadians.

Here are five things you need to know:

1) What is Equifax: The Atlanta-based company is one of three major U.S. credit bureaus that collects personal information such as social insurance numbers that are used by lenders to decide whether to approve financing for homes, cars and credit cards.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: hacker, security breach

London woman charged with defrauding Veterans Affairs

September 7, 2017

A London woman has been charged with defrauding Veterans Affairs Canada of more than $26,000 following an eight month investigation by the RCMP.

Terrill Anne Brooke, 61, is charged with fraud over $5,000 after allegedly accepting veteran survivor benefits after the recipient had died, according to a release Thursday from the RCMP.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: fraud

Calgary con artist facing nearly 400 new fraud charges may have bail revoked

September 5, 2017

The Alberta Crown wants bail revoked for a scam artist with a long record of convictions who now faces a staggering 399 new fraud-related charges involving five people in the Strathmore area, east of Calgary.

Jane Elizabeth Moore appeared in court in Strathmore via closed-circuit television on Tuesday morning. She made no other comments other than to acknowledge to the court that she was Jane Elizabeth Moore.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: fraud

MacEwan University defrauded of $11.8M in online phishing scam

August 31, 2017

An Edmonton university says it was the victim of an email “phishing attack” that resulted in the transfer of $11.8 million to a bank account staff believed belonged to a vendor.

MacEwan University said “inadequate” controls on banking information played a role in the fraud, which was discovered Aug. 23.

The fraud involved three transactions of varying amounts, the university said. Several opportunities to identify the fraud were missed.

Most of the money — more than $11.4 million — has been traced to accounts in Canada and Hong Kong, the university said in a news release Thursday.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: fraud, phishing scam

‘Remember, we only shoot Black people,’ Georgia cop says — on video — during traffic stop

August 31, 2017

ATLANTA—A white Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for telling a white woman during a traffic stop, “Remember, we only shoot Black people.”

The Cobb branch of the NAACP said Thursday the officer’s statements, captured on police video footage, were disturbing, but the branch president said she wanted to know more about the incident.

Channel 2 Action News reported that its request for body camera footage of the traffic stop prompted an internal investigation of Lt. Greg Abbott, who has been on the Cobb force for 28 years.

Read more at Toronto Star

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: police investigation

Foreign Farmworkers in Canada Fear Deportation if They Complain

August 13, 2017

SUMMERLAND, British Columbia — Desperate to provide for his family, Hilario Mendoza leapt at the chance to leave Mexico to pick cherries on a farm in British Columbia.

But bad weather left him so idle that he often worked just three hours a day — far less than the 40 hours a week he said he had been promised under Canada’s program for temporary farmworkers. While he waited to go to the fields, he found himself crammed with 34 other laborers into a small house where rain leaked onto their beds.

Months of complaints went nowhere — and then he was abruptly sent back to Mexico.

Read more at The New York Times

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: deportation, immigration

Paralegal found guilty of defrauding immigrants ‘appears to be on the run’

August 13, 2017

A Toronto paralegal has been found guilty by the legal profession’s watchdog of defrauding clients of over $1 million and providing immigration services for which he was not licensed.

Victor Manuel Castillo Garcia, who was licensed as a paralegal by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2010, worked with clients from around the world — including Taiwan, Cuba, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Peru — for their permanent residence and work permit applications.

Read more at The Toronto Star

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: immigration fraud

Toilet paper limited to ‘two per week’ at New Brunswick retirement home

August 8, 2017

MONCTON, N.B. — Residents of a New Brunswick seniors’ home have been informed they will each be limited to two rolls of toilet paper a week.

The Manoir Notre-Dame in Moncton said in a written notice the move is necessary because of an increase in overall costs.

“We will limit the rolls of toilet paper to two per week which will be deposited every Monday in the rooms,” the Aug. 2 notice read.

Read more at Woodstock Sentinel Review

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: health care system

Why are Canadian seniors worth more dead than alive?

July 23, 2017

If you are a Canadian senior, your life insurance policy could be worth a lot more money than you think — while you are alive. If only provincial governments and life insurance companies would let you sell it for its fair market value.

Recently, a 74-year-old friend of mine asked me if he could sell his term life insurance policy. He knew someone in the United States who had received more than $100,000 for a term policy she no longer needed.

Read more at torontosun.com

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: health insurance

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