Investment Scam

Prominent Canadian mining figure convicted in the 1960s Windfall Oils and Mines wash-trading scandal on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Created deepfake-style marketing videos promoting fake trading applications.

Historical Canadian stock promoter convicted in connection with mining-exchange fraud schemes.

Co-orchestrated one of Canada's largest Ponzi schemes (Syndicated Gold Depository / Institute for Financial Learning), defrauding investors of more than US$100 million. Sentenced in Alberta to 12 years in prison.

Partner of Milowe Brost in the multi-hundred-million-dollar international Ponzi scheme; sentenced to 12 years for fraud and theft over $5,000.

Saskatchewan investment adviser sentenced to seven years for orchestrating a CA$16.7 million Ponzi-style fraud (Maximum Financial).

Daughter of Ronald Fast; convicted and ordered to pay roughly CA$1 million in restitution for her role in the Maximum Financial investment fraud.

Unregistered Montreal financial adviser who ran a Ponzi scheme for roughly two decades, defrauding around 150 victims of approximately CA$50 million; sentenced to 11 years.

Ontario man who orchestrated a long-running 'forex' Ponzi-style scheme that fleeced investors out of tens of millions of dollars.

Former Vancouver stock promoter convicted of stock manipulation and securities fraud by Canadian and U.S. regulators.

Convicted in Quebec for operating a boiler-room stock-manipulation scheme.

Operated fake 'high-yield investment programs' (HYIP) promoted via social media targeting retail investors.

Convicted in connection with manipulating micro-cap stocks via offshore bank entities.

Toronto fund manager known as the 'Chinese Warren Buffett' / 'Chinese Madoff'; convicted of running a roughly CA$50 million Ponzi-style fund (Oversea Chinese Fund).

Operated a phantom forex investment firm (Sabourin & Sun) that targeted retirees' savings; the Ontario Securities Commission obtained substantial sanctions.

Implicated in widespread penny-stock pump-and-dump operations targeting North American investors.

Operated fraudulent high-yield forex training seminars charging steep upfront fees for worthless 'systems'.

Convicted for running high-yield-investment Ponzi schemes.

Defrauded Banco Noroeste of Brazil out of approximately $242 million in one of the largest 419 advance-fee frauds on record.