Bitcoin scams — including from fraudsters claiming to be police or the CRA — are on the rise in Regina.Author of the article:Heather PolischukPublishing date:Sep 11, 2020 • • 3 minute readSergeants Kelley Berting and Bryant Westerman with the Regina Police Service's Commercial Crimes Section with a poster warning the public about bitcoin scams currently…...
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School librarian Amanda Brasfield bent over to grab her lunch from a small refrigerator and felt her heart begin to race. Even after lying on her office floor and closing her eyes, her heart kept pounding and fluttering in her chest. The school nurse checked Brasfield’s pulse, found it too fast to count and called…...
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With more and more of its healthcare clients seeking help understanding the detailed requirements for implementing the new information-blocking rules put in place under the 21st Century Cures Act, law firm Davis Wright Tremaine decided to create a new Information Blocking Toolkit to help others manage their compliance. WHY IT MATTERS The info-blocking final regs,…...
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The Government’s decision to exclude from consideration how the past performance of a school should affect its students’ Leaving Certificate results is expected to be a target of legal challenge. There is a widespread view that an effect of this has been that students who attended schools, including grind schools, that have a track record…...
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Around 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan could lose their temporary protected status and be forced to return to their home countries under a federal appeals court decision handed down Monday. The 2-1 decision from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for President Trump, who has tied ending…...
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The administration of United States President Donald Trump can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the US, an appeals court has ruled. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted a preliminary injunction that had blocked the government…...
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Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officers Hamant Sharma and Yamini Sarangi appeared before the Lokayukta Monday to plead their cases in connection with an alleged scam in the purchase of PPE kits in Odisha.Hemant Sharma, the former head of the state level purchase committee and Sarangi who was the Managing Director of Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited…...
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A 51-year-old US citizen has been charged with running a diamond and cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors claim that Jose Angel Aman, from Washington, DC., operated a fraudulent investment scheme across the United States and Canada, luring investors with promises of quick returns in the diamond trade.The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Friday that…...
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Nowadays, due to the increasing use of phone and internet banking, various types of cybercrimes are coming out. Till now it was advised by the bank not to share the PIN or OTP number of your debit/credit card with an unknown person. But now with more digital money transfer and wallet services available, fraudsters have…...
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TORONTO -- Police in Ontario have issued a warning about a recent wave of cottage rental scams that have taken advantage of people’s desires to get away from home during the pandemic. Interest in cottages has exploded over the summer and is expected to stay strong into the fall, and some criminals are trying to…...
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