The Ottawa Police Service says its fraud unit has been seeing a rise in the numbers of Marketplace scams.
Police say buyers on Facebook Marketplace have been reporting cases where they had either bought counterfeit products or never received what they had paid for.
including emergency, gift cards, counterfeit merchandise, online shopping and selling, crypto investments, romance scams and cellphone and internet service provider scams.• Know the market value of the product you are looking for.• Look for customer reviews and ratings from third-party sources.• Pick-up items and provide the payment in person, whenever possible.• Never transfer funds in order to receive a payment for an item you're selling.
Two men from Senegal froze to death were found in the snow of a wooded area close to the Canadian border, New York state police said.For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that Manhattan prosecutors suggested Friday that Donald Trump violated a gag order in his hush-money criminal case this week by assailing the judge's daughter and making a false claim about her on social media.Niagara Region says it has declared a state of emergency 'out of an abundance of caution' as it prepares for an influx of visitors for next month’s total solar eclipse.The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News.
Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that his mother has rewound and replayed again and again, trying to make sense of what happened.A lot of concern and speculation is circulating in the small northern Ontario community of Field on Friday after a massive police search for "dangerous" suspects.Officers in the Parry Sound area started the long weekend with an early morning call about a single-vehicle crash Friday, Ontario Provincial Police say.
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