See that guy? The one in the bubble? He's probably up to no good. Thanks to President Obama, however, he's going to have a much harder time duping innocent young ladies like the one also shown here. Per The Hill, the POTUS has just signed into law the Safe Web Act, which extends the Federal Trade Commission's authority to "clamp down on Internet … [Read more...]
Obama signs Safe Web Act into law, extends FTC power to combat online scam artists
December 4, 2012 by
Bracelet scam targets Vancouver’s Chinese seniors
June 28, 2012 by
Police are warning Vancouver’s Chinese community about a scam that's made its way back to town, after going up and down the West Coast. Sgt. Joe Chu says a roving band of three women scammers convinced a 59-year-old woman to buy a jade bracelet that supposedly has mystical powers. Chu says the victim is out $ 15,000 and is too embarrassed to … [Read more...]
Lottery scam warning
April 27, 2012 by
Vancouver police have once again issued a warning about lottery scams targeting the elderly. Detective Linda Grange says in one case, an elderly woman in Hillsboro, California was telephoned from Vancouver and told she'd won 7.5 million dollars in the Australian lottery. All she had to do was pay a 70-thousand dollar processing fee. "So we … [Read more...]
One of B.C.’s most wanted arrested in new scam
December 5, 2011 by
A man who made headlines in the 2006 hit-and-run of a New Zealand doctor is once again behind bars. Xiao (Sean) Zhang, 25 – who served five months for crashing into Dr. David Higgins in front of his daughter on Gravnille Street – was arrested Nov. 18 on 33 criminal charges. The scam involved a man who allegedly dressed up as a courier and told … [Read more...]
