09/10/2026
POLICE WARNING COMMUNITIES ABOUT ONGOING SOPHISTICATED BEC FRAUDS TARGETING INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS
Further to a warning issued in April 2026, the Anishinabek Police Service (APS) is again warning Indigenous businesses and organizations in its communities to be aware of an active, serious, ongoing fraud threat.
This second warning is being issued after five additional reports of Business Email Compromise (BEC) were received by APS in recent weeks.
BEC is a sophisticated fraud in which criminals send an email message that appears to come from a known source making a legitimate request. The scammers, using a spoofed or compromised email account of the supplier, informed the organizations of a change in payment details. The email included new banking information with instructions to send future payments to the “new” account which is actually fraudulent. Believing the instructions to be legitimate, the organizations then made payment – in good faith – to the scammer’s account. Combined total losses in these recent cases exceeds $544,000.
Full news release, including precautions organizations and agencies should take to protect themselves, is available on our Newsroom: https://www.anishinabekpolice.ca/police-warning-communities-about-ongoing-sophisticated-frauds-targeting-indigenous-organizations
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