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The Grifter Guardian

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

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.

(Photography by Ian Brown)

A homeowner’s worst nightmare

Arif Adnan Syed turned luxury rentals into rooming houses. Catching him was simple. Evicting him was almost impossible.

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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.

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Watch out: scammer targets Ontario students

Man pretends to be student loan official

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Police issue warning to students about rental fraud

Scam making the rounds at U of Waterloo

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Banking on his reputation

Victims of Earl Jones’s alleged scam have a new target: the banks

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Champagne wishes

He stole $100 million, and lived like a king. Then it all fell apart.

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Students targeted by Facebook scammers

Are you a member of a Class of 2013 group? Better make sure it’s for real

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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.