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City of Sudbury scammed out $1.5M by fraudsters, duped into wiring cash to Toronto bank account – Toronto

The City of Greater Sudbury has fallen victim to fraud, after an unknown party posing as a contractor scammed the municipality out of over $1.5 million last month. The city says it is now trying to recover the funds, which were deposited into a Scotiabank account set up at Scarborough …

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Facebook fails to get accused fraudster’s $50M lawsuit tossed from B.C. court

Facebook has lost its bid to toss out a $50-million B.C. lawsuit from an alleged scam artist over an “imposter page” that used his name and likeness. Vancouver Island resident Timothy Craig Durkin filed suit against the social media giant in the summer of 2020, claiming that he had been …

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