Images of Canada's prime minister and billionaire Elon Musk helped fraudsters take $6,500 from a Salmon Arm resident.
On Friday, Nov. 1, Salmon Arm RCMP received a report from a woman who, approximately four months earlier, began investing with a company she believed to be reputable as on its website was a picture of Justin Trudeau and Elon Musk offering their endorsements.
"The woman gave the fraudsters access to her computer through a program called 'AnyDesk' and the fraudsters transferred $6,500 out of the woman香蕉视频直播檚 account into cryptocurrency," said Const. Andrew Hodges in a media release, adding "police discussed how the woman could protect herself going forward."
Hodges offered several online sources of information about scams and how you can protect yourself, including the BC , the and a .
