Editor: When a person commits a fraud, he does so with no compassion for the victim, or the dire circumstances he may place the victim in.

In most violent assaults and homicides, the perpetrator commits the act out of anger or misdirected passion.

Why do Canadian police departments  ignore the majority of frauds, while the victims are subject to low self-esteem, loss of assets, loss of retirement dreams and, all too often, suicide?

Only the very wary today are able to avoid being the victims of significant fraud.

Please don鈥檛 tell me it鈥檚 too hard to prosecute. Step one is to investigate,  which is virtually never done.

Divert the resources to where the victims are, and perhaps the time will come when we are able to answer a newspaper ad without risk of fraud, or open our laptops without being deluged with another battery of fraudulent requests.

Tony Smith,

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