How not to get hacked: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

If you’ve been too bustling to follow a consumer news this week, here’s our cheat sheet. And we can get the Marketplace newsletter in your inbox each week.

Big banks, large problems

Checking your monthly matter for astonishing fees is essential to your financial well-being. (J.P. Moczulski/Reuters)

Bank worker confessions about a vigour they’re underneath to sell we things opened a floodgates.

Now, a consumer watchdog wants to hear from anyone who has “experienced what they trust to be dubious business practices, or who have perceived a financial product or use to that they did not consent.”

Here’s one place to start: check your bank statements.

Bidding for business class

Here’s a new one in a economics of removing out of economy class. Air Canada is introducing an auction-style complement where passengers make a income bid to ascent their seat. The aloft a bid, a some-more expected you’ll get bumped up.

Alternate reality

Julia Marchese says she believed Chris Robinson when he offering to put her on a existence TV uncover — in sell for money. (Ivan Arsovski/CBC)

This tiny Ontario city suspicion it was removing a existence show. But it indeed got a convicted fraudster.

Business owners were told a uncover called Burger Wars Canada was going to put their mom-and-pop restaurants on a map, so they split over some income to a “producer.” The horde of a genuine Burger Wars was astounded by a news.

Bill fail

If we consider your phone check problems are a worst, maybe not.

A lady whose father died in Nov says that hours on a phone and dual copies of a genocide certificate haven’t stopped Bell from sending bills and withdrawing income from her dad’s account. 

What else is going on?

After a spate of recalls, this pot writer is holding additional steps to infer a product is pesticide-free.

This week in recalls: These energy bars, this XBOX controller charger, and this bike part.  

How not to get hacked and an Air Miles update

Air Miles is creation changes to a faithfulness points program. (CBC)

How can we strengthen your phone? As threats to your information and digital news continue to cocktail adult in a news, we uncover we what we need to know to strengthen your phone.

And, if you’re anticipating to spin Air Miles into highway miles in a let car, they might not go as distant as they used to. 

Watch this week’s part online. 

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