Financial frauds and scams target anyone. Explore the most common scams in New Brunswick, from crypto fraud to romance scams, and get practical tips to protect yourself.
Scam artists phone, email, or mail a letter notifying you that you're the winner of a large lottery or sweepstake. To receive the prize, you are told you must pay a small advance fee to cover taxes or legal fees associated to the win. No prize is ever received.
Your investment helps boost the value of a stock—at which point the scam artist sells their shares, devaluing your shares.
This scheme promises large gifts or payments in exchange for recruiting and enrolling others.
Fraudsters advertise properties online for rent that they do not own, using information and photos from legitimate real estate listings. Scam artist hope to get money from victims by collecting damage deposits on properties that are not actually available for rent.
If you’ve been targeted once, you’re likely to be targeted again. If a scam artist receives money from you, they will often hold onto your contact information for future use or sell their list of names and contact information to other scam artists for profit.
Scammers most commonly use email, social media sites, and dating websites to set up a fake profile and pretend to be looking for a companion.
When someone steals your personal information by “looking over your shoulder” in a public place. Here are some of the ways shoulder surfers can access your private data.
As unclaimed property programs come into effect in Canada, companies inevitably pop up offering to do searches for a fee. While third-party finders are legal, there are limits to the compensation they can receive.
Spam is unsolicited messages that advertise a product, phish, or spread malware. Spam is basically electronic junk mail that can harm you. Messages are usually delivered by email, text, social network sites, websites, apps, blogs, and more.