Learn How to Protect Your Money from Investment Fraud
Oct 05 2009
Recent cases devastating thousands of Canadians show that investing in a fraudulent scheme can destroy the lives of victims and their families. That is why Alberta and BC securities regulators have combined forces to provide an online tool to help you learn how to protect your money.
The interactive tool entitled, Investment Scams: How to Protect Your Money, focuses on some common methods that fraudsters use to approach potential victims – via friend and family or ‘affinity’, the Internet, seminars and advertisements.
Bank of Canada's New Retail Fraud Prevention Tool Kit
The Bank of Canada and its Partner's Against Fraud have developed a new DVD based training tool called "Fighting Fraud on the Front Lines" The tool kit combines scenarios and video segments to demonstrate how criminals use payment instruments and personal information to defraud retailers and consumers. Tip sheets provide you with a knowledge base to avoid becoming a victim.
Four types of payment frauds are covered in the training material:
Identity Theft
Debit and Credit Card Fraud
Bank Note Counterfeiting
Cheque and Money Order Fraud
The Alberta Crime Prevention Assoc. along with numerous law-enforcement and industry stake-holders contributed and actively endorse the training material.
You can view the material online or if you wish to conduct comprehensive training in your community you can order your own Retailers' Guide at 1-888-513-8212 or visit www.bankofcanada.ca
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