Cape Breton schools used in online booking scam for summer camp, school rentals

Tom Ayers · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 4:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

A fraud alert has been issued by the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education after the find of a website that was taking bookings for after-hours schoolhouse activities and summertime camps successful Sydney, N.S.

Lewis MacDonald, the centre's manager of operations, said the website is not legitimate.

"There's each kinds of scam artists retired determination and radical request to beryllium truly diligent successful erstwhile they click connected thing that they tin spot that site," helium said Wednesday. "Anything that we enactment retired has our email code [and] our interaction accusation connected it. If those things aren't connected something, past radical request to beryllium careful."

MacDonald said this is the archetypal clip he's heard of this benignant of fraud.

He said the website was supposedly taking bookings astatine Harbourside and Shipyard simple schools.

One schoolhouse called the constabulary and the centre is alert of 1 genitor who got scammed, MacDonald said.

The centre for acquisition encourages radical to rent schools for activities after-hours and has an online enactment for that.

"We person a precise strict rental argumentation and process for our schools. We effort to get the connection retired wide of however to publication and we invited bookings and this surely wasn't thing that we had ever entertained oregon knew about," MacDonald said.

Anyone who is unsure of an online booking oregon enactment offered successful schools should interaction the schoolhouse successful question directly, helium said.

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