fraud

A penny stock fraud scheme that allegedly conned investors in 35 countries out of more than $140 million is raising questions about how authorities can combat such financial scams in the internet age. More...

The fraud case involving the London, Ont., Mayor Joe Fontana returns to court today after he was charged by the RCMP last November with fraud, breach of trust by a public official and uttering forged documents. More...

By The Associated Press, cbc.ca, Updated: March 17, 2012 11:07 PM A California man has been convicted in a scheme in which hundreds of Canadians filed fraudulent tax refund claims in the United States. Ronald L. Brekke was found guilty this week of conspiracy and wire fraud after helping...

U.S. authorities have charged a former Quebec doctor in what is being called one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in U.S. history. More...

A Toronto-area woman is warning others to be wary when dating online, saying she was swindled by a man who is now facing fraud charges. More...

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is investigating 6,500 people who may have obtained permanent residency status or Canadian citizenship through fraud, Minister Jason Kenney says. More...

Canada's border agency has opened more than three dozen criminal investigations related to marriage fraud in the last few years, newly released documents show. More...

AP - Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has told an interviewer he has terrible remorse and horrible nightmares over his epic fraud, but also said he feels happier in prison than he's felt in 20 years. More...

Online banking fraud losses in the U.K. fell 32 percent in the first half of the year, according to figures from U.K. banks released on Wednesday. The decline is due to the increased use of fraud detection software by banks, an industry group said. More...

Romania has long been considered a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, but in recent years law enforcement authorities have made significant efforts to crack down on online fraud gangs that steal millions every year from victims worldwide. More...

U.S. and Romanian authorities have arrested more than 100 people allegedly involved in an Internet auction fraud scheme. More...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp's former chairman, convicted of masterminding a $2.9 billion fraud scheme before the company collapsed, was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison. Lee Farkas, 58, was convicted in April on 14 counts of conspiracy...

New details are emerging about a woman facing dozens of fraud charges in Halifax. Lesa George was charged Wednesday, accused of obtaining both a Bank of Montreal MasterCard and an American Express Card in the name of Laura Gerrior. It isn't the first time George has been in trouble with the...

A former top official with two Moose Jaw-area municipalities has been charged with fraud in connection with the alleged loss of $113,000. Elaine Salikin is scheduled to appear in Moose Jaw provincial court on June 1 charged with several offences, police said Tuesday. She's the former...

-- Federal authorities indicted and arrested more than 100 doctors, nurses and health care executives nationwide Thursday in what officials said was the biggest crackdown ever in a single day in connection with Medicare fraud. "We are pleased to announce the largest federal health care fraud...

A 58-year-old Belleville, Ont., man is facing charges in an alleged $30-million fraud in the United States. The FBI in Atlanta says an indictment alleges about 100 investors lost millions with Coadum Capital. James Jeffery of Belleville and Thomas Repke, 57, of Salt Lake City, Utah, are...

Mark Madoff found hanged in New York, two years to the day after his father turned himself in over billion-dollar fraud Mark Madoff, the eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, has been found hanged in his downtown Manhattan apartment on the second anniversary of the day his father...

Washington - Federal authorities arrested more than 50 suspects Wednesday and smashed what they describe as an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise engaged in a nationwide scheme to defraud the Medicare program. The Justice Department indicted 73 individuals in New York and four other...

Woman arrested in cancer fraud OAKVILLE, Ontario, Police in Canada have arrested an Ontario woman who admitted faking cancer to solicit money for herself and charged her with fraud, authorities say. Ashley Kirilow, 23, was arrested Friday and charged with three counts of fraud under $5,000...

Luxury homebuilder convicted in $18M scam COLUMBUS, Ohio, (UPI) -- A 46-year-old luxury home builder in Ohio could spend the rest of his life in prison after his conviction in an $18 million loan scheme. A federal jury in Columbus deliberated more than 13 hours before finding Thomas E...