Letting someone in has left one woman at risk of losing her home of four decades
And now Chapman could potentially lose the home she’s lived in for 42 years.
“It is just really a common thing that homeowners are vulnerable to,” says Sue Labine, spokesperson for the RCMP’s Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. “The fraudsters are very good at what they do: They know the best time to reach out to people is early morning when somebody is in a rush to get out the door or late at night when people are really busy,” says Labine. “It can happen to anybody.”In his efforts to help Chapman, Moss reached out to Christine Zuk, president of Vine and Williams Inc., a licensed insolvency trustee in Hamilton.
In cases like Chapman’s, Zuk says the difficulty is that people like Don pick their targets carefully.Article content
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