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You can be charged with fraud if police believe you committed an offence where a person or the public was defrauded of any property, money or valuable security or service. Statistics Canada reports there were nearly 40,000 incidents of cyber-related fraud across the nation in 2021. The StatsCan report adds that “while fraud is not an especially severe crime, it is a relatively high-volume crime … in several jurisdictions in Canada.”
The agency adds that “for the second year in a row, Western Canada, the Prairies and Ontario reported decreases in the rate of total fraud, while Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island reported consecutive increases.” Read more from this Calgary-based criminal lawyer.
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