Tis the season, where the holiday season is looming large on our horizon.
It’s a time for happiness, yes, but it is also a time that thieves typically start trying their luck on your mail boxes. Sophisticated thieves will collect your information out of your garbage and steal it out of your mail boxes, which they then match together to create a profile of you. Less sophisticated thieves are looking for gift cards and anything else of value.
The RCMP have already started to hear from your neighbours that mail boxes are being broken into – usually community mail boxes – so please follow the tips in this very good article from Canada Post to reduce your chances of being a victim.
Also, this week is Fraud Awareness week, so please have a look at this next link where you can download a booklet on Scams to Avoid. Since scammers prey disproportionately on vulnerable seniors, distribute a copy to somebody you know. Also printed a limited supply is available in the lobby of the South Surrey RCMP district office (100-1815 152nd Ave). Here is the link:
http://www.publiclegaled.bc.ca/scams-to-avoid-resource/