{"id":7901,"date":"2017-11-09T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2017-11-08T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:30:29","slug":"scammers-be-aware-of-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/scammers-be-aware-of-how-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers – Be Aware of how they work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 9, 2017 @ 08:19<\/b><\/p>\n

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Every year, Canadians of every age, gender, and socio-economic levels give away millions of dollars to \u2018scammers\u2019 \u2013 criminals who falsely represent themselves and \u2018talk\u2019 people into giving them money.\u00a0 This is done in person (door to door), through the mail, by telephone, and increasingly through the internet. They prey on us through our vulnerabilities, our fear, our generosity, and our desire to \u2018get-rich-quick\u2019.\u00a0 Almost weekly we hear about another scam targeting citizens \u2013 the Canada Revenue Agency scam; the grandchild scam; the romance scam.\u00a0 The list goes on and on.\u00a0 These scams can have significant impacts on families and individuals.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t uncommon to hear of someone losing their retirement savings to a scammer.\u00a0 But not only is money lost, we also lose trust in others, we lose self-respect when we discover that we have been had and are embarrassed to tell anyone, we may lose the ability to live our life as we had planned.\u00a0 And sometimes we have a \u2018broken heart\u2019, especially with the romance scams.<\/p>\n

So how do they work? \u00a0Depending on the type of scam, the scammers may spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out what makes people \u2018tick\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 I frequently get emails from \u2018Christians\u2019 in other countries who want to give me millions of dollars to be used to help the homeless or other impoverished groups, if I can only help them get the money out of the country where it is tied up in somebody\u2019s estate . . . and so on.<\/p>\n

How would they get my name? I work for Victim Services \u2013 and our general email is on our website.\u00a0 It is as easy as that.\u00a0 Type in the word \u2018victim\u2019 into the search bar of your internet and see how many sites will appear.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t count them all.\u00a0 Type in \u2018obituaries\u2019 into your search bar and see how many sites appear.\u00a0 Click on one of them and you will see the obituaries and if you scan through them it is easy to find someone who has recently lost a husband or wife and will be very vulnerable in the ensuing months.\u00a0 The vulnerability may be based on loneliness or on being unable to maintain a home without their spouse\u2019s help, or uncertainty about banking and handling of money.\u00a0 If there is a way to get into someone\u2019s heart, head, home and ultimately their wallet a scammer will find it.\u00a0 BE AWARE.<\/p>\n

Over the next ten months or so, the Senior\u2019s at Risk Committee will be placing an article in the Algoma News and on Wawa-News.com\u00a0 once a month. Watch for it and learn.\u00a0 In the meantime, if you have concerns that you or someone you know may be being scammed you can contact the OPP or Wawa and Area Victim Services at (705) 856-7852.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Information compiled by Beverly Boyd, Wawa and Area Victim Services using information provided by the Competition Bureau Canada (The Little Black Book of Scams<\/u>) and Canada\u2019s Anti-Fraud Centre Internet Website<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nov 9, 2017 @ 08:19 Every year, Canadians of every age, gender, and socio-economic levels give away millions of dollars to \u2018scammers\u2019 \u2013 criminals who falsely represent themselves and \u2018talk\u2019 people into giving them money.\u00a0 This is done in person (door to door), through the mail, by telephone, and increasingly through the internet. They prey …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 16:04:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}