If your employer asks you to purchase gift cards, you may want to confirm this before proceeding.
A city woman is out $1,800 after receiving an email from her employer asking her to buy prepaid VISA gift cards. She emailed scans of the pin numbers to her employer as requested. However his email had been hacked. The woman discovered she had been scammed after consulting with her employer.
For more information on these types of scams visit antifraudcentre.ca.
