Fraud

The Ottawa Police Organized Fraud Section focuses on investigating fraud matters and trends that can be linked, tracked and documented. They also focus on fraud crime reduction through various proactive crime prevention strategies including: targeting organized crime groups, education, training and public outreach.

 They maintain external partnerships in the community and are available as resources to police officers and other related organizations.

Police officers in the Organized Fraud Section investigate all types of fraud including:

• Fraud Against Seniors
• Counterfeit (Currency and other Documents) Fraud
• Credit Card and Debit Card Fraud
• Social Assistance (Welfare) Fraud
• Computer Fraud
• Identity Theft
• Corporate Fraud

See also: Known Scams

 

 

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