The fraud artists continue to attempt to fool people – pay attention and don’t get taken in.

Crime 100By Staff

June 15, 2014

BURLINGTON, ON

They are relentless.

They send the emails out by the hundreds of thousands.

Their costs are minimal.

They need one of two things – people with more greed than common sense or people who don’t fully understand internet technology and what happens when they click on a link.

This is particularly difficult for seniors who can remember the day when they had phones run by a local operator who made the connections.

CIBC notice June 2014

If you click on that box your problems will have just begun.

It means being vigilant – if it doesn’t seem right, it probably isn’t and if you don’t understand what you are being asked to do – then don’t do it.  And if it sounds too good to be true – then it isn’t true.

Set out below is the most recent scam.  We do not bank with CIBC.  How the fraud artists got our email address is beyond me – it’s not hard to get.  That address will get bundled with millions of others and sold to someone who will then use that list to send out millions of email – all they need is one and they make more money with that person than they make in a year.

Some people have been ruined because they clicked on what they saw as a great opportunity.  For the fraud artist it was a great opportunity.

 

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