Winnipeg debt card users have been told to double-check their debt card statements after police confirmed complaints of debt card fraud.
The commercial crime unit are investigating reports of at least two Winnipeg financial institutions where debt card information was harvested from a skimming device, somewhere in the city, after users using their cards had funds [...]
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Winnipeg Skimming Card Alert
Boiler Room Scam Targeting the UK
An insider claims there are hundreds of boiler rooms in Spain targeting the UK.
The insider dealer from one of the boiler rooms in Spain says thousands of young Britons are being sucked into the business. “They go out for extended holidays and work in a boiler room for someone, like it and want to stay [...]
There’s no honour among thieves in Saskatoon.
Some Saskatoon locals have learnt the hard way that there is no honour among thieves when they tried to buy stolen, knocked down priced, plasma TV’s.
Police from Saskatoon warned the public on Wednesday about the scam which involves a man phoning random people to offer them stolen plasma screened TV sets for hundreds of dollars [...]
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Victoria University Phishing Scam
One of New Zealand’s oldest universities, Victoria University has been hit by computer hackers known as “Spear Phishers”.
Spear phishing is a highly targeted phishing attack where Spear phishers send emails that look bona fide to all the members or employees within a certain organization, government agency, organization, company or group.
It is the latest in a [...]

















