Canada Scammers Database

Convicted for running a fraudulent timeshare-resale operation charging upfront fees for nonexistent buyers.

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

Convicted for running fake 'business grant' consulting agencies charging upfront fees for nonexistent government grants.

Convicted of targeting elderly US citizens with fake lottery-winnings notifications from Quebec.

Co-founder of the collapsed QuadrigaCX crypto exchange; previously convicted in the US under his birth name Omar Dhanani for identity-theft offences (ShadowCrew).

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).

Charged in US Vermont indictment (alias 'Paul') as a high-level operator in the US$21M cross-border 'grandparent scam' call centre.

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

Convicted in connection with long-haul logistics and cargo-theft fraud networks.

Operated a network of dummy sites for fake vacation rental bookings.

Ran fraudulent employment and 'mystery shopper' listings online to recruit unwitting money mules.

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

Founder of PlexCoin; shut down by the US SEC and Quebec AMF as a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).

Historical Canadian financial operator convicted of complex fraud and forgery offences in the early 20th century.

Convicted in connection with using offshore accounts to conceal systemic corporate tax fraud.

Linked to international crypto pyramid schemes operated through Canadian shell companies (DFRF Enterprises).

Orchestrated nonexistent rental-unit listings on Canadian classifieds, collecting deposits from would-be tenants.

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.

Charged in US Vermont indictment (alias 'Coop') and implicated in laundering proceeds of the grandparent-scam ring.

Caught operating fake 'fund recovery' agencies that re-victimized prior fraud targets.

Canadian-linked money courier sentenced in the US for picking up cash from elderly grandparent-scam victims.

Charged in US Vermont indictment (alias 'Ginger') with targeting and verifying vulnerable elderly profiles for callers.

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

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