Cost of Living4:46Points taken
When April Canavan’s inbox was suddenly flooded with emails in December, she knew something had gone wrong.
The Vancouver woman found herself subscribed to mailing lists she’d never signed up for, along with� emails saying she’d just redeemed PC Optimum points at a grocery store halfway across the country.
Within about 25 minutes, Canavan says fraudsters drained around $1,000 worth of points from her account, and the mailing-list tactic aimed to distract her from the theft.
But panic had already set in because, as she told Cost of Living, she’d been saving her points to pay for Christmas.
“So then it was like, ‘OK,
