Our friends the Zuber’s need your help.

Hi, our names are Andrea and Frank and we have started this fundraiser to support a dear friend’s family who are the latest victims of a scam, fraud and possible identity theft. Patricia and Andrew Zuber are sweet seniors who only see the best in people, and never thought that anyone would intentionally take advantage of people.

Here is a brief on the situation as described by our friend: Last week, on Sunday April 18, 2021, I found out that my parents have been living in shame for 5 years due to an HVAC scam that has cost them approximately $100K in liens on their property and a mortgage. In addition to these purchases, they are victims of fraud from a company called ECC (Eric Consulting Company). These guys have been working closely with my parents for a year, claiming that one was a consultant for a legitimate company (with the same initials as the fraud company, ECC) and the others were lawyers. These con artists had convinced them that it was in their best interest to work with them, these men were dishonest and not truthful about their intentions and my parents signed various documents for their services, which included opening massive loans to repair their house, a private real estate agreement to sell their house to an Ontario Inc business, to work with a lawyer that they referred them to, they offered to assist them with moving and finding a new house and other legal documents that are not known at this time. My parents were so trusting and innocent to their intentions, and unaware of these kinds of transactions or dealings did not realize or know to ask questions about what was happening, to ask for copies of documents or even realized that they could take photos of the documents. In truth, this shows you how truly vulnerable they are to criminals. These people went even as far as to tell them not to tell anyone, friends or family, until they had moved. It was only by accident that a family friend found out on Saturday April 17, 2021 and she told them that they had to call me. Therefore from Sunday April 18, 2021 to today, I have been aggressively investigating what has happened. Fortunately, with the support of an amazing Constable from the Durham Police Department we were able to convince the lawyer and my parents to cancel the real estate transaction that had a closing date of Tuesday April 20, 2021. My parents had signed this transaction authorizing it on the morning of Sunday April 18, 2021. This was a private purchase and sales closing date that was unreal and I was very lucky to catch it and stop it. This is the only transaction to date that I have been able to legitimately stop. If this continued, my parents would have been homeless. I am only beginning to continue this investigation with the Durham Police and my lawyer. There is so much that is still unknown and many documents that parents have signed that they don’t even know what they are.

We are reaching out to our trusted friends, family and the global community to assist these sweet people with getting their dignity, self-respect, self-confidence and life back. No one deserves to be treated like this and taken advantage of in their golden years especially not vulnerable seniors.

We are going to do everything possible to bring these people to justice and to ensure that my friend’s parents and their family are financially secure while they pursue this. This will not come cheap, that is why we set up this account to assist with lawyers fees and get them financially secure to move forward from this traumatic experience.

Your support can restore their faith in humanity, that there are more good people in this world then bad ones.

Please help with anything you can. Share this far and wide with anyone you feel can help.