Don’t be pressured into allowing a fraudulent inspector claiming to be with “Consumer Protection Ontario”
access to your home to check on the safety of your heating or air conditioning equipment.
He may sound authentic enough, and even uses the term “Greener Homes” in an e-mail address (that plays off an existing federal rebate program) and offer to come to people’s homes check their existing equipment as a way to gain entry.
He then offers to help by lowering payments or to remove a lien.
The Government of Ontario will never contact you directly to ask for your personal banking or health information, or your SIN number, and it will never never offer you money or sign you up for a rebate program.
Sound familiar? Get in touch with the Canadian Anti Fraud Centre or Consumer Protection Ontario via their website at Ontario.ca
By Rick Stow
