Popular scams of the 90's:

[barbarossa]

I was wondering if anybody here has a particular story to share regarding incidents of insurance, welfare, and bank scams prevalent back in the early and mid-nineties in major Canadian metropolitans with large Somali population, cities such Toronto and Vancouver among others. Has any of the big fishes, the masterminds of these scams, if you will, ever been prosecuted for their crimes and if so what was the outcome?

Here is a bit of a backdrop of what I think has taken place in that gold-rush decade.

Early in 1990, major Canadian provinces have discovered a widespread welfare scam, spanning over several years, in which individuals (mostly of Somali descendent) were collecting monthly social benefit checks from multiple provinces, at a cost of millions of dollars of the taxpayer’s money. Upon learning this, the provinces, accordingly, put in place measures that were designed to make the system less prone to fraud. As soon as the Skinnies realized that the jig was up against them, and this particular scam has run its course, and the well has run dry, so to speak, these Somalis, ever industrious in all matters wicked, combined with their natural loathing for earning living by the sweat of their brows, were hard at work hammering out new schemes to the quickest and surest ways to make tons of money. Few months later they struck ‘gold’ and turned to auto insurance fraud.

Immediately, the Maryooleeys began in earnest, to get heavily and may I add profitably involved in a fraudulent insurance claims on unprecedented scale and in a matter of few years collected estimated millions of dollars in damages. Apparently, all they needed to pull off these scams successfully, apart from insatiable appetite for greed, was to retain the services of a suitable crooked lawyer to deal with the insurance companies and a physician of similar hue whose role it was to mainly issue medical certificates validating the various physical and emotional injuries suffered by the ‘victims’ of these staged car accidents.

After sufficient time has elapsed to give paper-chasers to take care of bureaucratic side of things, and few correspondences were exchanged among concerned parties to ascertain any particulars that may need further clarifications and final preparations were made to, at last, proceed to the courts. However, the insurance companies, understandably, anxious of protracted legal wrangling and the high cost associated with it, were invariably compelled to settle the matter out of court and promptly issue checks to claimants in princely sums. All that remained now was for the vultures, i.e. ‘victims’, lawyers and doctors, to gather around and split the loot based upon previously agreed terms.
Needless to say, the financial cost for the insurance companies of these fraudulent claims was so devastating that it nearly brought the whole industry on the brink of total collapse. The Canadian government was, eventually, forced to step in and for the first time, in history, put a cap on auto insurance claims.

As the era of the auto insurance fraud came to a sudden halt, the Maryooleeys, were at it again, once more proving their unmatched prowess in the particular sphere of trade, and immediately turned to yet another barely tapped into industry, namely banks and financial institutions, and start defrauding them to the tune of millions of dollars. The Somalis christened it, if I remember correctly, the era of banki qarxis.

As it turned out, this proved yet another exceedingly profitable venture in which the perpetrators, by circulating thousands of forged checks and cashing them, have netted huge sums of money. But at the end of it all, this came all to naught, for according to an age old adage, those with ill-gotten gains will never prosper. In addition, it was only a matter of time before the long arm of the law, eventually, caught up with them. A large police investigation has led to the arrest and the prosecution of some members of these criminal syndicates and many of them reportedly served various lengthy prison terms. And there closed another dark chapter on the Somali criminal legacy in North America.

[The_Patriot]

Mofo they leanrt this art from timo jilec(indians) who learnt this technic from daga caas(whites).

So its not something Skinnies invented. Its just like the skinnies learnt that AK 47 could kill and have been using it ever since.

[barbarossa]

Mofo they leanrt this art from timo jilec(indians) who learnt this technic from daga caas(whites).

So its not something Skinnies invented. Its just like the skinnies learnt that AK 47 could kill and have been using it ever since.

Good analogy Patriot.. We just don't know when to say when and have to abuse everything beyond recognition; it is one of the few things we excel at.

[The_Patriot]

White folks are the biggest scammers followed by Asians Somalis come last on the pyramid as they do it after the asian scammers are in the 4th or 5th edition/generation.

White Scammers
Italians, Eastern Europeans

Asians
Chineese
Indians
Pakis



Africans
Nigerians
other west Africans




Somalis
Kikuyus
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