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Scotiabank Enters the Property & Casualty Market With a Little Help from ‘The Personal’

Published on August 26, 2009 By Andrew

    Another Bank has decided it can offer more ‘service’ to it’s clients by providing property and casualty insurance to their customer base.  Last Week, Scotiabank opened up their ‘insurance arm’ right beside their third largest branch in Mississauga, Ontario.    At present in Ontario, banks are not able to sell home and automobile insurance [...]

Identity Theft

Published on July 13, 2009 By Andrew

I received three emails within 24 hours from suspect senders.  Two were from ”Bank of Montreal” one from “Scotiabank”.  These emails are phishing scams.  ‘Phishing” is is the criminally fradulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.   Phishing is [...]