What to know about credit card travel insurance as an Air Canada strike looms + MORE Aug 14th

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After carefully planning a summer vacation, the last thing on your mind should be finding alternate transportation. But some travellers could be left scrambling as the clock ticks down to a possible work stoppage at Air Canada. The airline says it will gradually suspend its flights starting Thursday after the union representing the airline’s 10,000 flight attendants and the airline itself issued 72-hour strike and lockout notices, respectively. They are set to take effect around 1 a.m. ET on Saturday.

It can be challenging for customers who are stuck in the crossfire, dealing with delays and cancellations. But travellers may be in luck if they booked their tickets with a credit card that has built-in travel insurance—with one caveat. “You have to make sure that when you’re booking it, it isn’t past the date where many of (the credit card companies) would view it as a known event,” said Will McAleer, executive director of the Travel Health Insurance Association…

This is part of a series of columns about how to protect important information and people in your life against fraud and scams. Stay tuned for more.

Of all the organizations we deal with at least once a year, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would seem to be a hard target for cyber-crime. The federal department takes pains to make its portal and taxpayer information secure with multi-factor authentication. But taxpayers themselves may unwittingly give criminals the keys to their CRA accounts.

“Even with the best systems in place, if consumers aren’t wary about what identification data they have, they could get compromised,” warns Carl Davies, Head of Fraud and Identity at Equifax Canada. Fraud artists aren’t just trying to get their hands on your tax refund; they see the CRA as a repository of personal data they can sell or use to steal your identity—for example, by taking out credit or applying for government benefits in your name. “Criminals are trying to get into your CRA account in order to collect personal information to leverage that information to commit fraud, either at the CRA or other institutions,” Davies says…

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