Tag Archives: canada
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tax Refund Canada Revenue Agency Email Scam
Right now there is a new Canada Revenue Agency tax refund email scam taking place. The scammers are sending out emails to Canadian email addresses hoping you follow the link and give up your personal details so that they may steal them. The email subject alone should give this away as a scam – Refund [...]
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 – [...]
FBI Lottery Money
This is information on the FBI lottery money email scam. This internet fraud is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation name to con you into giving up your money. If you get the following email claiming to be from the FBI it is 100% completely fake and responding to it hoping for money will only [...]
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 [...]