Canada Post business analysts started referring to him \u0027the Stamp Guy\u0027
For at least three years, Allan Fischer, 59, set up fake business accounts with fake phone numbers, address and emails all across Canada for bulk mail with the postal service.
Between 2013 and 2016, using 48 fake business addresses, Fischer defrauded Canada Post of $234,763.31 in stamps and other products. He would sell the stamps at a discount to various customers, some of whom found him online through kijiji ads. Canada Post became suspicious when it started looking into 50 to 60 unpaid business accounts, all for unpaid stamp products, and couldn’t contact the customers by the phone number listed.
Also suspect on the applications were similar answers to selected security questions. Several times, the make of first car was Datsun, the name of first girlfriend was Connie, favourite concert was Blue Rodeo and favourite book was Think and Grow Rich. Also testifying were members of a non-profit group who unknowingly were listed on an Executive Centre mailbox for Canada Post deliveries.Article content
“I reject these assertions. I have found that the businesses involved did not exist or were created by Mr. Fischer,” Nicholson said.
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