A man from Calgary has been given a 12-month conditional sentence and has to pay a $50,000 fine for lying on his tax returns.
The Canada Revenue Agency says that Sean Nethercott from De Winton, Alberta admitted to lying on his tax returns to avoid paying taxes and getting refunds and tax credits he didn’t deserve.
Nethercott’s behavior was found after the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) looked into his tax returns for 2014, 2015, and 2016.
The agency says he didn’t report all of his income and made up expenses and deductions to pay less taxes.
“Nethercott tried to cheat the tax system by making up reasons to get back $51,952 and claiming $28,637 in tax credits that he didn’t actually qualify for,” the CRA stated in a press release.
In addition to the fine mentioned earlier, Nethercott will also have to pay all the taxes owed, plus any interest and penalties imposed by the CRA.
The CRA works to keep Canada’s tax system honest, which helps Canadians with their social and economic health. The CRA is working hard to catch people who cheat on their taxes and make false claims using all the resources they have.
“The CRA makes sure that people and businesses report all the money they earn and only get benefits they deserve. This helps important benefit programs go to the people who really need them. ” If you lie about how much money you make or claim things you shouldn’t, you might have to give back the money and could get in trouble.
You can find information on how to report people for not paying their taxes on the Government of Canada’s website.
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Tax fraudster in Calgary sentenced, fined $50 thousand
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FBI busts Hushpuppi’s close ally Woodberry; surrenders luxury cars, US$8m to US gov’t
Mr. Woodberry, also known as Jacob Ponle, a close associate of notorious internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has admitted to engaging in wire fraud.
In a plea declaration filed on April 6, 2023, at the US District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Mr. Woodberry admitted guilt to one count of the indictment.
As part of his plea agreement, he agreed to relinquish his luxury cars, watches, and $8 million in wire fraud proceeds to the US government.
According to the Nigerian blog, People’s Gazette, the court plea agreement requests that Mr. Woodberry repay the $8 million he fraudulently obtained from seven businesses that he defrauded.
The plea reads: “Defendant understands that by pleading guilty, he will subject to forfeiture to the United States all rights, titles, and interests that he has in any property constituting or derived from proceeds obtained, directly or indirectly, as a result of the offence.”
In addition, Mr. Woodberry was ordered to relinquish his claim to the expensive cars and designer watches he had hidden in Dubai, including a Lamborghini Urus, a Mercedes-Benz G-class, and a Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
In addition, six gold neck chains, three pairs of gold and diamond-studded earrings, four Rolex watches, one Patek Philippe watch, three Audemars Piguet watches, and one Patek Philippe watches were confiscated.
It’s important to remember that Mr. Woodberry already gave the American government 151.8 Bitcoin in 2022. On June 10, 2020, Hushpuppi and Mr. Woodberry were captured in Dubai for their participation in cybercrime.
Mr. Woodberry had a reputation for flashing his money on social media before his arrest, notably by donning pricey designer attire and showing off his ill-gotten earnings to his enormous Instagram following. -
Fraudsters look beyond MoMo wallets as they target bank accounts
Mobile Money is a cash management solution which offers flexibility, total security and convenience of accessing money on a mobile phone anywhere and everywhere and is no doubt providing security and comfort to users.
But the caution is that, users must be wary of fraudsters who may not only be seeking to empty their mobile money wallets but may also target bank accounts linked to mobile money accounts.
As MTN Mobile Money executive, Godwin Tamakloe explains in a zoom discussion with members of the Journalists for Business Advocacy (JBA), it may be a simple mobile phone call telling you about settings from the MTN office. As the caller leads you through some steps, you may end up setting yourself up for fraud when they succeed in getting you to generate an ATM token for them.
While mobile money technology has revolutionized monetary transactions and savings in many African countries including Ghana, wily fraudsters continue to devise strategies to fleece unsuspecting users.
The impact of the MTN Mobile Money Service in Ghana for instance has been phenomenal. Over an 11-year period, a total of GH¢3.8 billion has been saved in, and transferred through the system and according to Godwin, such benefits dwarf the negatives.
Yet, the fraudsters must be stopped, he maintains, and MTN has been working assiduously with the Ghana Police Service to achieve that.
Lines blocked
This year there has been a sharp decrease in the number of phone lines blocked as a result of mobile money fraud and an increase in the number of failed attempts reported.Industry experts explain that this is evidence that many more users are getting to understand better, the strategies used by these fraudsters. That notwithstanding, the importance of caution continues to be emphasized as the fraudsters continue to change their strategies.
Sophisticated scammers
Clearly, many strategies now abound for these scammers. As the technology gets more sophisticated, the scammers get more innovative and seek to exploit the service as technology offers them diversity. Thus, there has been the resort by some fraudsters to strategies such as pop up messages that trick customers into entering their PIN thereby divulging it to the scammers, fake kidnapping claims, romance scam, extortion, blackmail and emotional scam.Engage police
But MTN remains unperturbed, Mr Tamakloe assures. Indeed, the company continues to engage the police to fight these fraudsters.This year, a total of 13 mobile money fraudsters have so far been arrested and there appears to be no let-up in the quest to nab more of them.
MTN has requested that such fraudsters should be published in the media to serve as a deterrent to others. “Our management has written to the head of the police in that direction; we are still appealing to the police,†Mr Tamakloe reveals.
Source: www.graphic.com.gh
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Police still on manhunt for Facebook fraudsters who impersonated Ministers and other public officers
National security operatives are still on a manhunt for a Nigerian Facebook fraudster for impersonating public officers and duping some people worth thousands of cedis.
According to the state prosecutor Prince Joel together with his wife who is in the grips of the national security created multiple Facebook accounts pretending to recruit people into state agencies.
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Foreign Minister, Ayorkor Botwe were among the few whose names were used to perpetuate the crime.
Prosecutor on the case Fredrick Sarpong says so far 10 victims have reported the case the police and assisting with investigations.
Vivian Sadija Imran, a 31-year-old trader was arrested from her home in Ashaiman.
Officials of the National Security found six mobile phones, three mobile money numbers.
Victims who have fallen prey to the activities of these fraudsters have been encouraged to make official complaints to the Police.
Source: myjoyonlineÂ
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2 Nigerians allegedly impersonate over 20 Ghanaian ministers
A Nigerian National Vivian Sadija Imran is in police custody for allegedly impersonating about 20 ministers of state to defraud more than 500 Ghanaians of over GHC100,000, so far.
Together with her 24-year-old husband Prince Joel (her accomplice), who is currently at large, the duo used names and photographs of Ghanaian ministers of state to create multiple Facebook accounts and pretended to be the ministers.Through online chats and phone calls, they convinced their victims that they could secure employment for them at some state institutions such as Tema Oil Refinery, Ghana Gas Company, COCOBOD, among others. Various amounts of money were collected from the victims via mobile money for registration and processing.
Six mobile phones and three mobile money numbers were picked up during a search by National Security operatives at their Ashaiman Jericho home after complaints from the ministers.
Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, Minister for Tourism, Creative Arts and Culture, Shirley Ayorkor-Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Henry Quartey, Deputy Minister of National Security and Dominic Nitiwul, Minister of Defence, were among the most frequently names used by the suspects to defraud their victims.
Sadija, a 31-year old trader has since appeared before court and is yet to meet bail conditions as set by the Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Emmanuel Essandoh. Together with her husband Joel, they are facing eight counts of falsely pretending to be public officer and defrauding by false pretences.
SOURCE: ABC News