Students targeted by Facebook scammers
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Scam making the rounds at U of Waterloo
View ArticleA 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...
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Champagne wishes
The experts will tell you that most frauds start small—maybe a few hundred bucks pocketed here, a little accounting fudge there—and get gradually bigger over time as the thief warms to the task, and...
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Banking on his reputation
For years, disgraced financier Earl Jones kept his alleged scam operating on little but the force of his reputation. He knew nearly all of his clients personally, rarely missing a birthday or a...
View ArticleB.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. The regulator...
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