 | Players at the next step of the fraud are like paid actors; they have rehearsed every answer. Few schemes succeed, but enough do and the payoff is high enough that organinzed crime keeps trying. At least 30 homes in the GTA have either been sold or mortgaged without the real owners' knowledge. An organized crime group starts by looking through publicly available information for a home with a small mortgage. Even the 'stand-ins' are shared among crime groups. After impersonating the homeowner things move quickly. A sale or mortgage can occur in days with crooks looking for the next fraud within a week.
TPS put out a press release seeking the public's help identifying this man and woman, who impersonated the homeowners in the sale. |