March is Fraud Prevention month and the Alberta RCMP will be sharing tips and tools to prevent fraudulent activity.
If you believe you may be a victim of a scam it’s important to go straight to the source and access your accounts and information through official websites and not mysterious links.
“Go to the source. If you’re getting a notification from Netflix to update your account settings or your credit card information, don’t click on that link that you see in that email. Go to your Netflix account, google ‘Netflix’, login and follow those prompts on the website and never click on those links.”
During tax season, CRA scams are likely to be abundant but people continue to fall for them.
“You hear all the time [about] the phone call where they’re saying that CRA has a warrant for your arrest and so forth,” explains Savinkoff. “These aren’t ways that the CRA operates. They don’t tell you that they have warrants for your arrest — if they have a warrant for your arrest, the police will be showing up at your home.”
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre says no government agency will contact you to tell you that your SIN number is blocked.
Currently, fraudsters are also taking advantage of the recent war in the Ukraine as well. The Better Business Bureau recommends looking into the history of the organization you might be donating to before cashing in a donation.
The Alberta Government issued a warning against a license plate sticker scam…
