Have you ever found out about an amazing investment opportunity through newspaper or radio advertising, friends or family or the internet? Don’t be scammed out of your hard-earned money.
Try out our new resource, Investment Fraud: How to Protect Your Retirement, so you can learn to recognize and avoid scams.
In this resource, you will learn about three common tactics of scammers:
- Cold calls via the telephone
- Affinity fraud through friends and family
- Investment advertisements
Click here to view our ASC YouTube channel where you will find the Retirement and Fraud series that can easily be shared with friends and family. You can also become an ASC Facebook Fan and follow us on our ASCUpdates Twitter account.
You may also want to check out our ASC TV commercial, The Cheque.
Try out these tools that will help you Check First:
Do a Background Check
Take our Risk Tolerance Test
Try our Scam Sensor
Find out about Red Flags
If you would like to request a free DVD copy of this resource for your seniors organization or centre, or if you work with seniors and would find this resource helpful for employee training, please email checkfirst@asc.ca with your request. Please note that we can not accommodate requests for individual copies.