Viewers often wonder why people who run scams rarely get brought to justice.
Among the reasons cited is that the bad guys would set up in one country and rip off the citizens of another.
So they'd set up in Canada and rip off Europeans or Americans. For the longest time, that made them almost immune from any kind of prosecution.
There were informal arrangements between agencies what would occasionally catch the bad guys, but it was pretty ad hoc.
Now the authorities work together and it's starting to pay dividends.
The Competition Bureau announced today that 33-year-old Lookman Temidayo Adegbola has been found guilty of operating an employment opportunity scam involving counterfeit cheques.
Based out of Brampton Ontario, Adegbola was convicted of running a job scam, targeting Americans.
What he did was send people who thought they were secret shoppers counterfeit cheques, asked them to deposit the cheques into their account and send back most of the money via Moneygram.
The "job" was supposed to test Moneygram's customer service.
This is a similar scam to one targeting people here in B.C.
Authorities found 600 counterfeit cheques worth about $1 million at the scam artist's place. Adegbola will be sentenced September 15.
With a report by CTV British Columbia's Chris Olsen
