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