Telemarketing Fraud & Identity Theft

I attended a session with the RCMP on telemarketing Fraud & Identity Theft session - This was a community Information Session. This was a RCMP from Fredericton who works on the Commercial Crimes Section. This session was very interesting - he discussed cyber fraud and other fraud scams that are happening in NB as well as Canada. There was scams that happened here in Richibucto as well as Moncton. Debit reading scams - how restaurant, banks, bank machine were fitted with card readers & micro small cameras to defraud people. it was a very interesting session, He also discussed how Banks have changed their machines in the last year to stop card readers from being installed on official bank machines. He also warned us to take extra caution on entering our PIN number. He said 'Get used to covering your hand while you punch in your pin) He sowed us the many different ways people had installed cameras to record your pin number. He also cautioned us not to hand over our cards, but to insist to swipe our own cards - some restaurants would double swipe debit cards (1st swipe would be a card reader) and the 2nd swipe would be to capture your PIN. I walked away feeling. I walked away feeling - Gee I don't even want to use my debit card, and never go to a public computer to check your bank account. He also let us know about the latest Credit Union scam - where the official Credit Union Web Page was hijacked and people were logging into a dummy website (This people were based in Bathurst). The website was rigged to read your bank card & record keystrokes (your password) ) Then they would go to the real bank site with your information and then your bank account is empty!