Quebec Fraudster Racks Up $180K in Fake Aid | Toronto News

Toronto News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 26, 2026 · 1m

Quebec’s taxpayers may have just lost nearly $200,000 to a Senegalese immigrant named Omar Ndiaye, who allegedly pulled off a brazen fraud scheme by filing 55 fake social assistance applications under different names — 37 of which were approved. The same face kept showing up in photos, leading investigators to his door. Surveillance caught him withdrawing cash using stolen cards and grabbing mail from fake post office boxes, while his landlord found over 140 letters addressed to different people. Prosecutors called him a flight risk, though Ndiaye insisted he was just chasing his Canadian…