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Protect your money

Topic: Investor protection

Audience: investors

Description:

This interactive tool entitled, Investment Scams: How to Protect Your Money , focuses on the more common methods that fraudsters use to approach potential victims – via the Internet, advertisements, seminars, and by exploiting an affinity or common bond.

Developed jointly by the BC Securities Commission and Alberta Securities Commission, this online resource engages users with an opening quiz and testimonials to raise awareness of the ways fraudsters attract their victims. The testimonials are based on real cases depicting how people are drawn into scams.

This comprehensive tool provides information about how to recognize, research and prevent fraud. Offered as easy to access modules that can be shared, the resource also provides investors with checklists and tips to help them evaluate and research investment opportunities for risks and potential fraud. There are features within the resource to help investors directly email questions to a person offering them an investment and submit a complaint to the securities regulators. It includes a glossary covering common scams.

This fraud prevention tool is also supported by a video uploaded on YouTube to help people find it online and share it with their family, friends and colleagues.

For more information:

Andrew Poon, BCSC Communications
email: apoon@bcsc.bc.ca
phone: 604.899.6880

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