| Are we safe from Fraud? This is a question on | | | | misery. |
| most peoples minds who have either heard of or, | | | | The first step in protecting you and your family |
| have had first hand experience with some type | | | | from fraud crimes is education. By familiarizing |
| of scam. Compared to most countries our record | | | | yourself with the different types of scams, your |
| is relatively decent. However, the problem still | | | | chances of avoiding them grow exponentially. As |
| threatens everyone at any given time. | | | | well, the more you learn the safer you will be. |
| A recent study I conducted with family, friends | | | | This is because many of these confidence games |
| and strangers concluded that 72 percent of the | | | | work in the same fashion, making them easy to |
| people interviewed had very little to no knowledge | | | | spot. |
| of most schemes being played out on people | | | | There are several web sites on the Internet that |
| today. This included online fraud schemes as well | | | | go over the basics of common schemes. One |
| as offline street hustles and con games. This was | | | | only has to do a search in their browser for |
| alarming to say the least. It told me that most | | | | "preventing fraud scams and ripoffs" to find the |
| people are not educated and explained why so | | | | information. Then read what you can each day |
| many people become victims of these crimes | | | | and learn how the swindles operate. Alternatively, |
| each and every day. | | | | there are sites such us fraudscams.ca that |
| If only I could grab people and tell them to wake | | | | provide free information for those wanting to |
| up and smell the scam. It doesn't just happen | | | | protect themselves. |
| over seas and across the boarders, it's in your | | | | If you feel that keeping you and your family safe |
| own backyard waiting to come in and invade your | | | | from fraud is important, then take the time to do |
| life. Unfortunately, people would rather go around | | | | some research. Not only will you feel safer but, |
| thinking they are safe until it is too late. If only | | | | you will also have a new confidence in that |
| they knew that with just a little bit of knowledge | | | | knowing is the biggest part of the battle when it |
| they could be saving themselves from terrible | | | | comes to fraud prevention. |