Money sent to a fraudster · Canada

How do I report a business payment fraud to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre?

Report it online at reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca, or by phone at 1-888-495-8501 on weekdays, and report it to your local police as well.

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How do I report it?

Whether you are a victim or a witness, you can report a fraud or cybercrime online at reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca.

Toll free: 1-888-495-8501

If you have been a victim of fraud or cybercrime, please contact your local police as soon as possible.

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Who investigates?

Report to both, and keep the police file number with your records of the payment.

Remember: It's the role of your local police to investigate.

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What can an outside reading tell you after a payment fraud?

An outside reading cannot see your mailboxes, so it cannot tell you whether someone signed in to one.

It can show three things that bear on how a fraud like this reaches a firm: whether your DMARC record tells mail servers to refuse mail forged in your name, which look-alike domains of yours are registered, and which addresses at your domain are listed in breach data from other services.

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