Category Archives: Canada News
New Email Scam Targeting RBC Customers
This is a brand new email scam that just arrived in our inbox targeting Royal Bank of Canada customers. This email scam might not last long as the scammers have pulled the images directly from the official RBC website for their scam email. If anyone with half an ounce of sense at RBC is monitoring [...]
Online Access Password Reset Confirmation
Brand new email scam targeting Canadians who bank online via TD Bank’s EasyWeb services. Made to look official this email scam looks to steal your login details. The email attempts to convince you to click on the links contained within it and be lead to a specially crafted website in order to steal your EasyWeb [...]
Royal Bank of Canada Email Scam
There is a brand new email scam hitting in-boxes across Canada targeting clients of the Royal Bank of Canada. Unlike the cleverly created email scam we last highlighted for the TD Canada Trust clients, this one is pathetic in its makeup and execution. Clearly a rank amateur at work. The following email alert from the [...]
TD Canada Trust Email Scam
This TD Canada Trust email scam just dropped into our inbox. It has the usual tell-tale signs of a scam but it is better crafted than most email scams. They want you to believe that your online banking account at TD Canada Trust has been the target of an attempted break-in and as such you [...]
Your New Payment Reference: 001open
Brand new email scam targeting Canadians. As with all of these scams do not respond and do not click any of the links that may be in the email. I just read about a victim who identified the email as a scam but clicked on the link in it out of curiosity only to have [...]
How To Identify Fake Canadian Government Websites
Get Rich Fast was asked today by a reader to help identify a fake website purporting to be a government of Canada website, and that question was the inspiration for this post. Here is how to identify and protect yourself from a fake Canadian government website as sent by email scammers. Often the scam will [...]
Trust Me I Am Canadian
As a Canadian I love getting the following scam emails. They make for great reading and you cannot help but laugh at how pathetic they really are. If you get emails like this and still respond to them like they are real and it was really sent to you and only you on purpose – [...]
Canada Employment Scam
The following email is an employment scam targeting Canadians. Do the usual scam check questions and see this one falls apart quickly. Did you apply for a job with these people? Are you even looking for work? Was the email addressed to you personally – and this one wasn’t if you look at the source [...]
UK National Lottery Online Email Scam
We have seen this one before, and here it is again. This one must be catching people for the scammers or else they would try something new. Everyone wants to win the lottery so this one could be enticing to the unsuspecting. As with all these email borne scams there are the same clues people [...]