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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Maple Leaf Construction, head office at 777 Erin Street, filing lawsuit after they were scammed out of $400,000. Apparently, they had a sub-contractor do some work on a job and were later contacted to say the contractor’s banking information had changed. Maple Lead paid their bill using the new information only to learn it wasnt the sub-contractor who had contacted them, but fraud artists. Maple Leaf doesn’t know who the fraudsters are, so the only named defendant in the lawsuit is the bank that handled the transaction. This shows even big corporations can fall prey to these scams. See Dean Pritchard story 220119 - Wednesday, January 19, 2022.