Fraud

Find out what protection you’re entitled to if you fall victim to a financial scam, and learn how to prevent financial fraud.

Lately my phone has been ringing constantly with scams. Sometimes it’s the “CRA” threatening to throw me in jail if I don’t pay up fast. Sometimes …

With files from Samatha Kohn and Will Koblensky. This post was originally published on March 14, 2023, and was updated on March 5, 2024. According …

Car insurance fraud is a $2 billion per year problem in Canada, and it’s mostly up to the consumer to solve it. Provincial governments have made recent strides in combating the issue.  For instance, in 2018, … Read More

When it comes to insurance fraud, Canadians claim to be trustworthy, but 15 cents out of every dollar paid in premiums goes toward covering fraudulent claims, according to Allstate Canada, costing the industry an estimated $1 … Read More

Most of us law-abiding citizens wouldn’t want to take anything that doesn’t belong to us or isn’t coming to us – most of us. But as the cliché goes, a few bad apples can spoil the … Read More