A federal jury in South Carolina convicted Demani and Tanya Bosket this week in a transnational email-compromise ring that drained more than $25 million from people in the middle of the largest transactions of their lives. The pitch was not a pitch. It was a forwarded thread.
Montreal police arrested four men this week in a $4.5M alleged real estate fraud that turned debt-relief ads into deeds. The victims walked into a notary's office. They walked out without their homes.
An Edmonton police investigation alleges Curtis Quigley and Kathleen Treadgold sold promissory notes tied to real estate flips for twelve years. The houses were the story. The seniors who lost their money were the inventory.
A Calgary realtor sold bridge loans for real estate deals that never existed. Four years later, Alberta's regulator cut the largest assurance fund cheque in its forty-year history. It covered less than half the loss.
Tamara King and Paul Waln sold 22 Seattle investors a West Seattle apartment deal called Halcyon. When the ten years were up, the money was gone and the excuse was a lie about a sick contractor.
Federal prosecutors say a sitting New York Supreme Court justice let his name sit on a bank account two investors believed was an escrow. The wire cleared. The money moved. Only a fraction came home.