Wesley Weber

Early life Weber grew up in Amherstburg, a small town near Windsor, Ontario. During his high school years he considered himself a computer nerd and by the age of 13 he was able to produce his first fake bills. In 1997 he was sentenced to three months for forgery. He used editing software that allowed to enlarge the image up to 1000 times To emulate the security features of the real money, Weber used special paper that did not glow under UV light as well as custom foil to forge the metallic patch on the bills. He also purchased fluorescent paint to simulate another feature, the polymer UV responsive dots. Police started following Weber's trail after he used his 100 dollar counterfeit bills to pay for a three-thousand dollar purchase at an auto parts supplier. The year he was arrested, Canada changed their currency bills, introducing new security features to try to prevent counterfeiting. Weber pleaded guilty in August 2001, and moved to Richmond Hill, Ontario where he worked selling phones.

Trading During his jail term Weber learned market trading and after release founded the consulting firm Goldbridge Financial Inc. which provided financial services without registration. Weber and his wife, Michelle Kam, co-founded the digital currency startup company Incryptex which provides a platform for trading and storing digital crypto-currencies. Weber used the alias 'Wesley Kam' to try to get the company listed on a public exchange by issuing shares and received funds from investors. On 29 October 2019, he was sentenced for that offence to a prison term of 90 days, along with two years of probation by Justice Malcolm McLeod of the Ontario Court of Justice.

Cannabis advocacy Wesley Weber had been a marijuana farmer in the past. In April 1999 he got arrested for exploiting a grow op in the basement of his home in Windsor That year, he was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest and 240 hours of community service. In October 2018, the Cannabis Act legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purpose in Canada. Weber declared that he helped finance a chain of cannabis stores named CAFE and according to a CBC News investigation he was one of its founders and main owners. His wife served as director of a company that owns one of the properties used by CAFE. She was also the guarantor of a 1.7 million dollar loan on that real estate.