Nearly 37,000 Quebecers were victims of fraud in 2023, an increase of 15 per cent in two years, according to the Quebec Association of Police Directors (ADPQ).
The ADPQ invited the media to a press conference Wednesday morning at Quebec provincial police (SQ) headquarters to report ‘a worrying increase’ in fraud in Quebec.
Montreal, Montérégie and the Quebec City area are the regions where fraudsters have claimed the most victims.
However, Laval and Mauricie saw the biggest increase in fraud, at 20 per cent.
“The most frequent frauds in Quebec are those involving the fraudulent use of service cards, computers and identity theft” and “these categories include frauds involving false representatives, grandparent-type frauds and romance frauds,” said Patrick Bélanger of ADPQ.
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– This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on April 17, 2024.