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RCMP warn of Internet scams
[alpha]Cranbrook RCMP would like to advise the public of an Internet scam which is still making waves in Cranbrook.
A caller from the Cranbrook area reported receiving a warning about their Paypal account and an invitation to resolve the matter by ‘clicking’ on a website. When the site was checked out, it was found to originate overseas and Paypal confirmed that the caller’s account was just fine.
Internet scams abound and the Cranbrook RCMP would like to warn people not to believe everything they read and if something looks suspicious and ‘not right’, it probably isn’t. Please protect yourselves by not giving out personal information to people or organizations you don’t know and anything suspicious should be checked into before you do anything. Quite often an Internet search for recent scams or frauds of the type you suspect can be done with little difficulty.
E-KNOW will be publishing a detailed feature story on scams in the near future.
Cranbrook RCMP
