COVID-19 scams are on the rise, including insurance scams. Although most of the country is either social distancing or are on lockdown, the fraud-fighting community is seeing a rise in the number of insurance fraud cases. The rise is very noticeable and is enough to prompt organizations to issue alerts for their consumers.
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In the face of lockdowns and stay at home orders from the authorities, it seems like a new pattern of neighbourhood crime is emerging in Canada. The police are reporting fewer incidences of drunk driving, fraud, traffic violations, and other crimes, but has been seeing a marked increase in domestic violence for the past few weeks overall.
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Google has been actively fighting off scam emails related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the latest report says the tech giant is blocking around 100 million coronavirus scam emails per day. The coronavirus emails are phishing attacks launched by scammers to collect data such as personal information from unsuspecting individuals.
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Not even an economy-stopping pandemic will stop fraudsters. As more nations feel the grip of the increasing health crisis, scammers are taking full advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to send fake emails to people tricking hapless victims into clicking on malicious links or attachments and revealing their personal information.
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A Brampton man faked having COVID-19 in order to get out of work. He has been charged after he falsely claimed contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus earlier this week.
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Covid-19 seems to be everywhere and so are fraud attempts and scams that are related to it. It isn?t new that fraudsters typically take advantage of times when people are confused to create more mayhem and cash-in from fear. Creative fraudsters do not care about what happens tomorrow, they only care about benefitting themselves and will exploit any avenue to do so, even the outbreak of Covid-19.
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Real estate fraud has been seeing an increase in incidences lately. Be it title fraud or mortgage fraud, it seems that more people are falling victim to real estate fraud and it?s about time people arm themselves with information for better awareness.
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It takes a lot of work to find information about a person of interest. Below are the top 10 places that private investigators usually use to find information about a person.
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Finding assets is not as easy as simply looking up a person?s bank details. There are so many different types of assets and not all are fluid money sitting in one?s bank account. What you typically need is an individual?s financial records, but then, a look would require a court order or authorization and may not even provide complete details as some people hide their assets for various reasons. Fortunately, some assets can be found by looking at public records. Below are the best types of public records to look at if you want to find assets.
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Children are often very curious and ready to ?investigate? almost anything. Their minds seldom work with bias and limitations which humans learn later in life. The way they think is certainly an asset for private investigators! At Haywood Hunt, we?ve been a private investigator firm for a very long time; yet, we acknowledge that there are still plenty more to learn so that we can improve the execution of our private investigation services. A quick chat with the team brought up the following list of what private investigators can learn from children.
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