{"id":45319,"date":"2014-05-15T18:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-11-04T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:20:29","slug":"scams","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams","title":{"rendered":"Telephone and internet scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box\">\n<h2>If you speak French<\/h2>\n<p>In many cases, you have the right to government services and legal proceedings in French, including hearings before French-speaking decision makers. If you have a legal problem, you can ask a lawyer or a community legal clinic about your French language rights.<\/p>\n<h2>Si vous parlez fran\u00e7ais<\/h2>\n<p>Il existe de nombreuses situations o\u00f9 vous avez droit \u00e0 des services gouvernementaux et \u00e0 des proc\u00e9dures juridiques en fran\u00e7ais. Ainsi, vous pouvez avoir droit \u00e0 ce qu&#8217;une audience \u00e0 laquelle vous \u00eates partie soit tenue devant un d\u00e9cideur qui parle fran\u00e7ais. Si vous avez un probl\u00e8me juridique, vous pouvez demander \u00e0 un avocat ou \u00e0 un intervenant d&#8217;une clinique juridique communautaire de vous informer des droits linguistiques li\u00e9s au fait de parler fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Telephone and internet scams are used by criminals to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers.  They use fake lotteries, get-rich-quick opportunities, miracle health cures, and many other types of stories. New scams are being created all the time.<\/p>\n<p>This resource will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help you recognize common scams,<\/li>\n<li>give you tips on how to better protect yourself, and<\/li>\n<li>tell you what you can do if it happens to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49416,"template":"","class_list":["post-45319","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-04T17:20:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"773\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams\",\"name\":\"Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-15T22:37:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-04T17:20:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":773},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Publications\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Telephone and internet scams\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/\",\"name\":\"CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)","description":"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)","og_description":"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams","og_site_name":"CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)","article_modified_time":"2022-11-04T17:20:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":773,"url":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams","url":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams","name":"Telephone and internet scams - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg","datePublished":"2014-05-15T22:37:57+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-04T17:20:29+00:00","description":"Criminals use telephone and internet scams to trick people into giving them money or personal information like credit card and bank account numbers. This resource explains how to recognize and protect yourself against common scams, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/scams.jpg","width":500,"height":773},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications\/scams#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Publications","item":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Telephone and internet scams"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/","name":"CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"meta_box":{"tree_select":[],"publication_format":"HTML","overview_for_topic_page":"","legal_topic":[{"term_id":1203,"name":"Debt and Consumer Rights","slug":"debt-and-consumer-rights","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1203,"taxonomy":"book-legal-topic","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"month_n3k7rgrosnq":"May 2018","publications_to_alerts_to":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/45319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/45319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49418,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/45319\/revisions\/49418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}