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Fraud Prevention

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Defend yourself against scams and fraud.

We've compiled a collection of helpful links to learn about and protect yourself against fraud.
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre collects information on fraud and identity theft. They provide information on past and current scams affecting Canadians: antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre) is part of the Communications Security Establishment Canada. It is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for Canadians: https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en 
Get Cyber Safe is a national public awareness campaign created to inform Canadians about cyber security and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online: www.getcybersafe.gc.ca
Being an informed investor is one of your best defences against investment fraud. Although most investment advisers are honest and work in your best interest, you still need to carefully choose who you deal with. Use this website from Canadian Securities Administrators to confirm if an individual or firm is properly registered: www.aretheyregistered.ca 
Learn how to recognize various scams, protect yourself from identity theft, and report a scam or a fraud: canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/corporate/portfolio/service-canada/fraud 
Recognize a scam, verify it's the CRA calling you, protect your CRA accounts, and avoid tax schemes: canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/corporate/scams-fraud

Quick Tips

  • Criminals often try to create a sense of urgency to trick you into falling for their scams. Emails, phone calls, and texts that instruct you to take an urgent action should be treated very cautiously.

  • Legitimate organizations will not ask you to provide sensitive or personal information through email or text. Always make sure that you are using the organization’s official webpage before entering any information or credentials. 

  • Be skeptical of any unexpected phone calls or emails, offers that sound too good to be true, and suspicious links.

  • Enable multi-factor authentication and create strong passwords on all of your accounts, to add an extra layer of security.

  • Only download apps from official and trusted sources. Avoid downloading apps from third-party websites or links sent via text or email.

  • Avoid phishing scams by paying attention to the details of an email. Phishing emails will often contain spelling and grammatical errors, the wording of the email may seem unusual, or the body of the email won't contain the logos and branding that you would expect from the real organization.

  • Do not click on links or download attachments from messages that you are not expecting.

  • If you are speaking to a caller on the phone and you suspect a scam, ask questions that would be difficult for an imposter to answer correctly.