Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre collects information on fraud and identity theft. We provide information on past and current frauds affecting Canadians.
Recent frauds
Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre impersonation alert!
Fraudsters continue to impersonate Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) representatives. These fraudsters often claim to be investigating fraud or promise to help get your money back from a previous incident. They then request personal and financial information.
Remember! The CAFC does not contact individuals to request money. For more information, see Fraudsters impersonating the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
Services and information
Frauds by A-Z index
Alphabetical list of frauds
Frauds by medium
Browse frauds by delivery method
Frauds affecting individuals
Find out what frauds target individuals
Frauds affecting businesses
Find out what frauds target businesses
Protect yourself
Protect yourself from fraud
Report fraud
Report a fraud
What to do if you're a victim
Learn more about the actions to take after fraud
Fraud features
Learn more about frauds, trends, variations, alerts, success stories and more.
Annual reports
Access an annual overview of fraud in Canada and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre's activities.
Fraud Prevention Month 2025
How to better protect yourself from fraud by learning how to recognize, reject, and report it.
Maple Disruption 2025
Learn more about how cyber security partners are teaming up to shut fraud down.
Other online resources
- Statistics Canada - Information for survey participants
- Get Smarter About Money
- Get Smarter About Crypto
- Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
- Cyber Safe Guide for Small and Medium Business
- Get Cyber Safe
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
- Office of Consumer Affairs
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
- Interpol - Financial Crime
The impact of fraud so far this year
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- Victims of fraud:
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In the news
- Alert Bay RCMP disrupts major fraud scheme targeting ‘Namgis First Nation
December 22, 2025 - W5 investigates cryptocurrency scams targeting Canadians
December 19, 2025 - Police seeking additional victims in grandparent scam; suspect photo released
December 19, 2025 - La SQ lance un appel à la vigilance sur de la vente itinérante au Témiscamingue (in French only)
December 11, 2025 - 12 holiday scams experts say to be aware of this season
December 5, 2025 - Attention aux fraudes par message texte (In French only)
December 2, 2025 - Il usurpe l’identité de résidants d’autres provinces pour frauder Québec (in French only)
December 1, 2025 - « Pimps de la fraude » : une escorte aurait été recrutée sur Snapchat pour frauder des aînés (in French only)
September 13, 2025 - Fraudes à l'endroit des aînés: des peines plus sévères réclamées pour les fraudeurs (in French only)
September 12, 2025
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