Phishers targeted Canada's leading financial institutions on Wednesday, a federal financial regulator says.
Some banks, insurance and trust companies received a "phishing" e-mail, purportedly from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), the agency said Wednesday.
"We received word from most of the major financial institutions," spokesman John Kane said.
The e-mail said FCAC was investigating a complaint against their organization, and told the recipients to click on a link to view the status of the complaint.
But the link would send the recipient to a site containing harmful software.
The agency does not send such e-mails, and does not direct people or financial institutions to links on its website, it said in a release. The e-mails "are fraudulent."
FCAC enforces consumer-protection laws and monitors codes of conduct at banks and federally incorporated trust, loan and insurance companies.
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