FRAUD SQUAD TV

Story A (6 min): Moving Fraud

A teacher hired a mover to move her belongings from New Haven, CT to Radford, VA. The company's estimate was $2,230. On moving day the movers loaded their truck, locked it and then presented the victim with a bill for $4,745 - more than double the original quote.

Story B (10 min): Nigerian 419 Scam

No one is immune to this popular form of the age-old advance loan fraud. In this story, a doctor recounts how he was taken and how he was successful in capturing the culprit in an international sting operation.

Story A (6 min): Counterfeit Money

This episode takes a look at counterfeit currency, how it is produced and how the average citizen can learn to identify the real from the fake.

Story B (10 min): Mortgage Fraud

In a compelling case, a woman wakes one day to find she is responsible for a $300,000 mortgage on her own property. Pretending to be her, the fraudster walks into a bank and with minimal identification, arranged for the mortgage. How she survived this experience is a heroic tale of hope.

Story A (6 min): Charity Fraud

This story will show how scam artists take advantage of people's generosity to charities. The victims and experts will discuss how it is not only the donors that are victimized, but the integrity of the legitimate organizations as well.

Story B (10 min): Investment Fraud

In one of the biggest cases in Canadian history, Michael Holoday stole more than $20 million in just a few years from some of the business worlds most savvy investors.

Story A (6 min): Vacation/Travel Fraud

A travel agent is sentenced to four years for defrauding over 30 customers out of more than $278,000 in bogus vacation packages.

Story B (10 min): Advance Fee Fraud

A veteran and his wife are conned by a fraudulent loan company. The fraudster offers the veteran a loan he couldn't get approval for at his bank, provided he pay certain feed and charges upfront.

Story A (6 min): Home Improvement (US)

An elderly couple hires a home improvement firm. The company charges them $900,000 for $60,000 worth of work. The woman became so distraught by the experience she suffered a heart attach and died. Her Alzheimer-afflicted husband had to be institutionalized. The contractor was sentenced to 114 months.

Story B (10 min): Debit Skimming

There are many ways, simple and sophisticated, of grabbing your debit card information including you PIN number. This story features rare police surveillance footage of criminal technology used to gather this information and take your money.

Story A (6 min): Identity Theft

Are you a financially responsible individual? "Ann Marie" thought she was until collection agencies began calling her demanding the repayment of thousands of dollars in loans. A woman assuming Ann Marie's identity, with only a social insurance number and driver's license number, opened a bank account and stole thousands of dollars in lines of credits and credit cards in her name. After renting out a house to friends, Rob Lynch sees a new side to the people as they steal his identity to take out many accounts in his name.

Story B (10 min): Lottery/Elderly Fraud

One of the most tragic victims in the world of fraud is the elderly. In this story an 83-year-old woman loses most of her belongings by financing promises of lottery winnings. Her niece desperately tries to convince her that she is a victim of heartless fraudsters.

Story A (6 min): Employment Scam

A woman takes a $4,800 cheque from a fraudster and pays him $3,500. Expecting the cheque to be good she anticipates making $1,300, but the cheque bounces and she loses her $3,500. A college student trying to earn some extra cash finds himself involved in a job where instead of making money, he loses it due to a fraudulent cheque.

Story B (10 min): Adoption Fraud 1

An adoption agency offers the same children to several different couples taking fees from all of them. In some instances the agency was not able to find a child for the couple and would not return the money. They also lied about the children's background. Some of the children had emotional and physical problems.

Story A (6 min): Pump & Dump

Repeat Fraudster Harris Dempsey ''Butch'' Ballow wasted no time when he was released on bail after being convicted of a stock fraud. He set up another stock scam taking more than $3 million. Ballow did not appear in court for his sentencing in his previous $10 million pump & dump and remains a fugitive at large today.

Story B (10 min): Used Car Fraud

A couple selling a car get a call from a buyer in Nigeria. He sends them a cashier's cheque for $8,800 and asks them to cash it and deduct the cost of the car ($1,600). Thinking the cheque was real, they send the fraudster the money. The cheque was declared counterfeit and the couple lose the money they advanced.

Story A (6 min): Home Improvement (CDN)

A man approaches several home owners and tells them that he is paving driveways in their neighbourhood. He offers to do theirs at the same special rate. He takes their money but never completes the work.

Story B (10 min): Pyramid Scam

An individual loses a lot of money getting involved in a pyramid scheme that promised an easy, fast return.

Story A (6 min): Counterfeit Products

A homebuilder suffers eye damage after fraudulent Oakley sunglasses shatter. He sued the retailer that sold the counterfeit merchandise and was awarded $70,000.

Story B (10 min): Identity Theft Raid

Elena Lutchfield, a young woman from Portland, Oregon was living in fear after being the victim of identity theft. The investigation of her case led to the raid of the scam artists' home and to their arrest.

Story A (6 min): Art Auction Fraud

Kristine Eubanks and Gerald Sullivan create a fake tv show and defraud over 10,000 people of more than $20 million. FINES ARTS TREASURES was an auction style show broadcast on national television. Viewers thought they were buying original pieces of art from famous artists like Picasso, Dali, Rousseau and Chagall but everything was fake, right down to the certificates of authenticity. Find out how the FBI, Postal Inspectors and the LAPD set up a sting to nail them.

Story B (10 min): Marriage Fraud

In this segment, con men and women use love as a ploy to gain immigration status and entry into the country. Once they have been admitted they leave their new spouse. The spouse is left devastated financially and emotionally.

Story A (6 min): Fake Credentials

A profile on resume fraud and how fake credentials can hurt the reputation of legitimate academic institutions, businesses and even risk people’s lives. Fraud Squad TV interviews three prominent experts in this field.

Story B (10 min): Fake Certificates of Deposit

Fraudsters set-up fake offices in a scheme to rip-off elderly investors. Hundreds of people were asked to sign over their old Certificates of Deposit in exchange for ones allegedly more valuable. All of the Certificates of Deposit they received in the exchange, were worthless fakes.

Story A (6 min): Car Insurance Fraud

Every year, hundreds of thousands of cars are stolen in North America. Car thieves go so far as to break into people’s homes to get their car keys. Learn how it affects car insurance rates and how you can protect yourself.

Story B (10 min): Real Estate Investment Fraud

In an ultimate act of breach of trust, a college professor defrauds the families of eight of his own students. He pretended he was hiring the students to work in his real estate company but all he really wanted was access to their parent's money. He stole money from their families and friends.