{"id":918241,"date":"2026-10-02T20:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:36:28","slug":"oshawa-man-charged-after-senior-loses-400k-in-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918241\/","title":{"rendered":"Oshawa man charged after senior loses 400K in fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Oshawa man has been charged after police say an elderly woman lost more than $400,000 in an alleged fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-arrested-in-fraud-investigation-targeting-elderly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-arrested-in-fraud-investigation-targeting-elderly\/\">Durham Regional Police<\/a> say that on Oct. 7, 2023, officers responded to a residence near Windsor Avenue and Elm Street in Ajax for a wellness check after concerns were raised about the welfare of an elderly woman who may have been the victim of elder abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they then launched a lengthy investigation into allegations of fraud and theft, and determined the woman had lost more than $400,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sept. 29, police arrested Christos Charalambous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was charged with theft over $5,000, fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000. The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say they are concerned there may be additional victims. Anyone with information is asked to contact Durham Regional Police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oshawa man has been charged after police say an elderly woman lost more than $400,000 in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-918241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}