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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

Summary: Timothy Barker, 56, a Band Manager at Duncan's First Nation in Alberta, bought seven Step2 play sets from an Amazon.ca seller called Adavio for nearly $2,000 during the week of March 31, 2023, and the boxes arrived from Walmart with shipping labels bearing a contact phone number in Mexico. An Ontario woman's Walmart account had been used with her credit card to place the order, and in April 2023 the RCMP arrested Barker for theft; prosecutors stayed the charges a week before his court date at the end of November 2023.

Bottom line: Barker lost his job and says he cannot find new work because a Canadian criminal record lists charges, not just convictions - and a stay of proceedings leaves him unable to clear his name while the RCMP can still reopen the case. The fraud itself was a hijacked Walmart account and a third-party Amazon seller registered in Turkey, the kind of supply-chain gap that turns an ordinary purchase into someone's arrest record.

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Fraud & Scams
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