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The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC; formerly known as PhoneBusters National Call Centre) is Canada's national anti-fraud call centre and central fraud data repository. [1] It was established in January 1993 in North Bay, Ontario , and is jointly operated by the Ontario Provincial Police , Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Competition Bureau .
Phoenix Research and Trading Corp. was a Canadian hedge fund firm, based in Toronto, Ontario, that experienced catastrophic trading losses.The firm's fixed income trader, Stephen Duthie, accumulated losses in unhedged U.S. Treasuries that resulted in Phoenix losing approximately 75% of its assets in a month as the positions were unwound.
A Canadian trader turned $65,000 into $306 million by betting on Tesla during the pandemic. However, a lawsuit shows the trader lost it all in the 2022 bear market.
He was arrested on April 4, 2019. On July 30 of the same year, Hanson pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges. He admitted to defrauding North Dakota and Canada victims. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and was ordered to pay back more than $11 million in restitution. [7] [8] [9]
Contact your bank or credit card company if you paid a scammer to report a fraudulent charge. If you sent cash by mail, contact the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and ask them to intercept the ...
In August 2008, the CFTC set up a special task force to deal with growing foreign exchange fraud. [3] In January 2010, the CFTC proposed new rules limiting leverage to 10 to 1, based on "a number of improper practices" in the retail foreign exchange market, "among them solicitation fraud, a lack of transparency in the pricing and execution of transactions, unresponsiveness to customer ...
This is International Fraud Awareness Week, when various companies and nonprofit organizations work to educate people about how to avoid becoming victims of financial fraud. Last year, American ...
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