Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time."People hand out their email addresses to third-party vendors all the time. A lot of damage can be done with an email address. People can request banking and password resets." For #FraudPreventionMonth, Clay Young speaks with WPS Financial Crimes Unit Sgt.
He added ATB also told him he had changed the “officers” on the accounts — just another, he said, of many red flags. “It’s been a year of us trying to capture that money,’ he said. “I can’t tell you how frustrating it’s been.”ATB wouldn’t share the findings of its investigation with Global News, citing privacy issues.
“That’s an important amount of money,” Genoway said. “Being a non-profit organization, we’re trying to provide services at the most reasonably priced, affordable prices to all age levels and losing $50,000 impacts us greatly.”. She told Global News, in general terms and not specific to this case, financial fraud is one of the most common kinds of victimization being seen in Canada right now.