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fraud.ca helps Canadians check a business before they hand over their money. On one page you’ll find what other people experienced, open discussion where you can ask questions, and, where available, the business’s public record from government sources.

What we stand for

  • Independence. No business can pay to remove, hide or change a genuine review. Businesses can respond in public — the same way for everyone.
  • Fairness. Honest negative experiences are welcome, and so are positive ones. Our guidelines ask reviewers to describe what happened rather than make accusations, to help keep things fair for businesses too.
  • Transparency. Public records are shown with their source and date. Our rules and how we moderate are explained.
  • Privacy. We never show your email address publicly, and we don’t sell personal information. See our Privacy policy.

fraud.ca is a review community. It isn’t a government agency, a consumer protection body or the police. If you’ve lost money to fraud, contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and your local police.

Data sources and licences

  • Business locations and contact details: © Overture Maps Foundation, Places data, combining sources including Meta and Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare (Apache 2.0) and All the Places (CC0).
  • Federal corporation records: Corporations Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Records of dissolved and inactive federal corporations come from the same Corporations Canada dataset, under the same licence. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Registered charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities open data, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Money services businesses: FINTRAC, Money services business registry open data, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Québec contractor licences: Régie du bâtiment du Québec, Liste des licences actives (Données Québec), under CC BY 4.0. fraud.ca matches its entries to listings by phone number, name and postal code.
  • Area codes: Canadian Numbering Administrator.
  • Reviews and discussions: written by fraud.ca members, who are responsible for their own content.

Business information may be incomplete or out of date; business pages show when their details were last updated. The date of each official file is on Public records explained. See How we verify for details.

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