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#Fraudchat: romance scams, Thursday, July 31, 2014, 1 p.m., EST
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 5:00 AM
Financial Crimes: 416-808-7300
At 1 p.m., EST, on Thursday, July 31, 2014, Janet Sherbanowski, Executive Director of the Crime Prevention Association of Toronto, will be appearing as a guest on #Fraudchat. She will highlight important online and community resources that members of the public can use to protect themselves and their families from romance scams.
Members of the public can follow Janet Sherbanowski on Twitter at @sherbanowski.
This chat will focus on romance scams, how to recognize, report and avoid being a victim of fraud. Transcripts of all chats can be viewed on the #Fraudchat Storify channel.
To follow #Fraudchat, members of the public simply need to log on to Twitter from 1 p.m., to 2 p.m., EST on Thursday afternoon and follow the #Fraudchat hashtag. An application such as Tweetdeck, which allows users to separately view tweets containing this hashtag, is also helpful in following the chat.
About #Fraudchat
#Fraudchat is a weekly Twitter chat that takes place every Thursday, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST on Twitter. Launched in November 2012, this program seeks to educate and exchange ideas with the public about financial crimes and fraud. The moderators for this program are members of Financial Services Commission of Ontario and detectives from the Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes Unit.
Since November 2012, the Financial Crimes Unit has partnered with the Financial Service Commission of Ontario to educate the public about financial crimes and fraud through the use of social media.
Media enquiries
For more information about #Fraudchat, please contact the TPS Financial Crimes Unit at 416-808-7300 or the Financial Services Commission of Ontario at 416-226-7803.
For more news, visit TPSnews.ca.
Constable Jenifferjit Sidhu, Corporate Communications, for Staff Inspector Mary Lee Metcalfe, Financial Crimes Unit
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