Investment Fraud Awareness

60 60 Reason for Not Reporting Fraud: As with national results, top reason for not reporting fraud is that they didn't fall for it/clearly a scam (28%) Q Why didn't you report it to the authorities? [asked only of those who believe they have been approached with a fraudulent investment AND did not report it to the authorities; open-ended; national n=624, Manitoba n=72] National Didn't fall for it/clearly scam Manitoba = 27% Didn't fall for it/clearly scam 28% Too much fraud (spam) to report it 11% Waste of time/too much bother 11% all Was not positive it was fraud Believed nothing would be done 8% Believed nothing would be done about it 9% 8% about it Didn't think about reporting it/did not see the need 9% Knew it was already reported by others Knew it was already reported by 8% 8% others Waste of time/too much bother 7% Was not positive it was fraud 6% Didn't think about reporting it/did not see the need 5% Did not know who to contact 5% Did not know who to contact Too much fraud (spam) to report it all 6% 4% Not enough information/hard to Not enough information/hard to 4% 2% prove prove Other 11% Other 11% Don't know 5% Don't know 5% Note: 'Refused' (National <1%, MB<1%) not shown INNOVATIVE RESEARCH GROUP

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