Text message scams, or "smishing," occurs when fraudsters pretend to be a government agency, bank or other organization and ...

Canada has a reputation for welcoming newcomers, but new arrivals still need to be on the lookout for scams that target them, including phone scams, e-transfer scams and apartment rental scams.

Hang up and contact the Windsor Police Service non-emergency line at 519-258-8501 to verify the caller’s authenticity. If there is suspicion the call was a scam, report it to the Canadian Anti ...

Canada's Anti-Fraud Centre told Reuters that complaints to the Canadian government about extortion scams reached 15,000 in total last year, a figure 10 times higher than in 2014.

But Canadians were on the other end of a much higher proportion of fraud-related calls. Spam calls made up 18.3 per cent of calls from unrecognized numbers in Canada, the report found, with 6.3 ...

The scam involves callers spoofing the official police phone number in Sudbury — 705-675-9171 — and impersonating Greater ...