RCMP in Steinbach, Manitoba say scammers are posing as officials from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and asking people for personal information. RCMP want to warn the public of this scam and would like to remind citizens to never disclose personal...

The 36-year-old, who is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., pleaded guilty in a U.S. district court in California for money laundering crimes that involved the theft of funds from bank accounts in the U.S., Canada., the UK, and several other locations around the...

As COVID lockdowns lift, fraudsters are shifting their focus to the industries showing the most growth.  As suspected, fraudsters are evolving to a digital world. A new study by TransUnion finds the rate of digital fraud attempts rose 16.5% globally in...

On July 6, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre shared a notification about a possible Business Email Compromise scam with the United States Secret Service Ottawa Field Office that resulted in saving a U.S.-based company from losing almost US$750,000 and a number of jobs.

Retailers say they are seeing a sharp increase in a type of return fraud in which consumers claim they never received their online orders even though they did. The practice, known as “item not received” fraud, took off during the pandemic, when warehouses were backed up and carriers were overwhelmed by a surge in e-commerce orders.

In 2020, BBB received 771 reports of scams impersonating Amazon. The bogus raffle and suspicious link are part of a con used to trick people into visiting a phishing website, where they unwittingly share account credentials as well as personal and financial information with fraudsters.

The REvil group claims its malware, which initially targeted US IT firm Kaseya, has hit one million “systems”.

Some computer repair shops in Nova Scotia have been seeing a rise in online scams since the COVID-19 pandemic began and the RCMP is warning the public to be on alert.

The Better Business Bureau is issuing a warning on Sneakfoot, a website that advertises as an “independent reseller” of name brand products ranging from shoes to apparel.

The JBS Canada beef processing facility in Alberta has resumed production after a cyberattack that impacted the company’s operations in North America and Australia.