Frauds by medium
Note
This list is intended as a navigational aide, not as a comprehensive or official list of all frauds affecting Canadians.
How did the fraudster contact you?
- By email or text message: Email and text frauds
- Through a website or social media platform: Internet frauds
- By a letter or other mail item: Mail frauds
- By phone or fax: Phone and fax frauds
- In person: In person frauds
Email and text frauds
- Bomb threat
- Business executive spoof and wire fraud
- Car wrapping
- Card-not-present
- Charity and donation
- Denial of Service (DOS)
- Emergency
- Explicit video
- Extortion
- Fake business proposals
- False billing
- Financial agent
- Financial industry client spoof
- Foreign money offers
- Grandparent fraud
- Hitman
- Hostage
- Inheritance
- Initial Coin Offerings
- Investment
- Job
- Merchandise
- Mystery shopper
- Payroll spoof
- Phishing
- Ponzi
- Prize
- Pump and dump
- Pyramid
- Romance
- Spear phishing
- Supplier/contractor swindle
Internet frauds
- Business grants and loans
- Card-not-present
- Charity and donation
- Counterfeit merchandise
- Cryptocurrency
- Extortion
- Fake grant
- Financial agent
- Franchise/business opportunity
- Government documents, help with
- Government grant
- Immigration website
- Initial Coin Offerings
- Investment
- Job
- Job: counterfeit cheque
- Loan
- Merchandise
- Pardon
- Prize
- Ransomware
- Romance
- Service
- Sextortion
- Subscription trap and continuity
- Tech support
- Vendor fraud
- Weight loss grants
Mail frauds
- Extortion
- Fake business proposals
- False billing
- Foreign money offers
- Inheritance
- Job
- Mystery shopper
- Prize
- Psychic
Phone and fax frauds
- Air duct cleaning
- Bank investigator
- Calls targeting the Asian community
- Canada Revenue Agency
- Card-not-present
- Charity and donation
- Collection agency
- Directory
- Emergency
- Extortion
- False billing
- Franchise/business opportunity
- Gem
- Grandparent fraud
- Head office spoof
- Hostage
- Hydro
- Immigration extortion
- Investment
- Low interest rate offers
- Office supplies
- Personal information
- Ponzi
- Prize
- Prize winner call
- Pump and dump
- Pyramid
- Recovery pitch
- Resale
- Service
- Sim card swap
- Taxpayer
- Tech support
- Timeshare resale
- Timeshare
- Vacation
In person frauds
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