{"id":9949,"date":"2021-06-28T05:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2021-05-23T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:04:42","slug":"pandemic-related-scams-have-duped-over-8500-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/pandemic-related-scams-have-duped-over-8500-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic-related scams have duped over 8,500 Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian consumers beware.\u00a0 Scams executed since the beginning of the pandemic involved include tricking people into buying fake vaccines and test kits, identity theft, and ransomware attacks. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre also said on its website that COVID-19-related fraud has cost Canadians $7 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/ca\/news\/cyber\/pandemicrelated-scams-have-duped-over-8500-canadians-244173.aspx\">Pandemic-related scams have duped over 8,500 Canadians<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has announced that it has taken down thousands of fake government websites, emails, and notification apps &#8211; but data suggests that many Canadians still fell prey to these scams. An email statement from the centre&#8217;s spokesperson Evan Koronewski said that the fraudulent websites are impersonating the federal government to &#8220;deliver fake COVID-19 exposure notification applications, designed to install malware on users&#8217; devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian consumers beware.\u00a0 Scams executed since the beginning of the pandemic involved include tricking people into buying fake vaccines and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-res.keymedia.com\/cms\/images\/us\/023\/0116_637468194986150468.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Pandemic-related scams have duped over 8,500 Canadians","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,201,52],"tags":[389,513,450,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-9949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-community","9":"category-hr","10":"tag-cybersecurity","11":"tag-consumer_awareness","12":"tag-covidconcerns","13":"tag-fraud"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}