Prologue
The Fifteen-Year Grift: How One Woman Stole Millions From Canada’s Seniors By Janet Brown, Staff Reporter – The Globe and Mail Over the course of fifteen years, one woman defrauded Canadians—most of them seniors—of more than $5 million. Her name is Ramona Elizabeth Rossi, 45, the daughter of a once-prominent Edmonton restaurant family. She is now in police custody, facing multiple counts of fraud and identity theft. Rossi’s scams evolved with the times. In 2010, she began with the classic grandparent scam, phoning elderly victims and pretending to be a relative in sudden legal trouble, demanding thousands in bail money. By 2012, she was impersonating bank officials, urging seniors to transfer funds overseas “to help the RCMP catch hackers.” She later posed as a Canada Revenue Agency auditor, demanding gift cards to cover fabricated tax debts. In recent years, she infiltrated cell phone accounts, ordering devices in her victims’ names and reselling them for cash. Her s...
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