Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Avoid being a victim of financial fraud

By Lisa Goudy


Personal financial information shouldn’t be shared with anyone, even family or close friends.

“I was reading a mother had said that she got some help from her daughter using a credit card and then when the statement came in for the previous month, there were charges that the mother didn’t remember making,” said Catherine Gaudreau, spokesperson with the Canada Safety Council. “The daughter kind of laughed it off because the result there was that her financial information had been used by her daughter to acquire items.

“So fraud isn’t necessarily strangers. It can be people close to you.”

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