List of Scams

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Scams by A-Z index

This list is intended as a navigational aide, not as a comprehensive or official list of all scams affecting Canadians. Source: https://antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/scams-fraudes/azindex-eng.htm

  • A
    • Air duct cleaning
    • Asian community, telephone calls targeting the
  • B
    • Bank investigator
    • Bomb threat
    • Business executive spoofs and wire fraud
    • Business grants and loans
    • Business opportunity
    • Business proposals, fake
  • C
    • Canada Revenue Agency
    • Car wrapping
    • Card-not-present
    • Charity
    • Collection agency
    • Continuity
    • Counterfeit merchandise
    • COVID-19
    • Cryptocurrency
  • D
    • Denial of Service (DOS)
    • Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)
    • Donation
  • E
    • Emergency
    • Explicit video
    • Extortion
  • F
    • Fake business proposals
    • Fake grant
    • False billing
      • Directory
      • Office supplies
    • Financial agent
    • Financial industry client spoof
    • Foreign lottery
    • Foreign money offers
    • Franchise opportunity
  • G
    • Gem
    • Government documents, help with
    • Grandparent scam
    • Grant
  • H
    • Head office spoof
    • Hitman
    • Holiday scams and fraud
    • Hostage
    • Hydro
  • I
    • Identity theft and fraud
    • Immigration extortion
    • Immigration website
    • Inheritance
    • Initial Coin Offerings
    • Investment
  • J
    • Job
    • Job: counterfeit cheque
  • L
    • Loan
    • Lottery, foreign
    • Low interest rate offers
  • M
    • Merchandise
    • Money mule
    • Money offers, foreign
    • Mystery shopper
  • P
    • Pardon
    • Payroll spoof
    • Personal information
    • Phishing
    • Phishing-as-a-service
    • Ponzi
    • Prize
    • Prize winner call
    • Psychic
    • Pump and dump
    • Pyramid
  • R
    • Ransomware
    • Recovery pitch
    • Resale
    • Romance
  • S
    • Service
    • Sextortion
    • Sim card swap
    • Spear phishing
    • Subscription trap
    • Supplier/contractor swindle
  • T
    • Taxpayer
    • Tech support
    • Telephone calls targeting the Asian community
    • Timeshare
    • Timeshare resale
  • V
    • Vacation
    • Vendor fraud
    • Video, explicit
  • W
    • Weight loss grants
  

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