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Any one else get this email, today.
For now I will consider this as spam/scam. If it’s legit I should have been advised by snail mail or been advised by email to see info in “My Service Account, Canada”.

It’s not to enroll to the dental plan. It’s to enroll to access Sun Life portal for:
coverage details,
printable member cards,
claims history and statements, and
the CDCP Dental Benefits Guide

If it’s legit I am not going to give off a bunch of personal information to see something that I don’t need.

I had Sun Life at work for 30 years without access. Go figure, Sun Life.

A few years ago I got an email from
"PayPal" offerring me $5.

I called the real PayPal and they confirm that the offer was real. They said a little reward for being a nice guy.

GIC-Fanatic said
It’s not to enroll to the dental plan. It’s to enroll to access Sun Life portal for:
coverage details,
printable member cards,
claims history and statements, and
the CDCP Dental Benefits Guide

If it’s legit I am not going to give off a bunch of personal information to see something that I don’t need.

I had Sun Life at work for 30 years without access. Go figure, Sun Life.  

Yes, it's legit, but not mandatory to enroll to access Sun Life portal.

The CDCP is a government program and Sun Life is contracted to administer it on behalf of the federal government.

You can happily use your CDCP without ever accessing Sun Life portal.

Dean said
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"Think Before You Click‼️" . . .

Yet Another E-Transfer Scam ⬇️ https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/consumer-alert/article/ontario-woman-loses-nearly-3000-after-clicking-fake-e-transfer-link/

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She got Lucky ... others Not-So-Much

Dean

  

Could someone explain whether the lady affected by the scam did something wrong?
How can one know whether an e-transfer link one receives is fake or not?

Thanks so much, Winnie!
I understand now.

For EMT, just set up autodeposit. Any stranger that says "my EFT not working cuz I am using business account, blah blah", it's a 100% scam.
There is no harm having autodeposit setup.
Most if not all has more than 1 email, you can setup multiple email all direct to the same bank account if one wants (for autodeposit).

GIC-Fanatic said

And also keep in mind that e-transfer still has the options, from some FI's, to cancel the transaction by midnight of the day of transaction. Even if you "think" you have received the funds.

See here

Not true. There's no option to cancel the Interac e-Transfer after the funds are sent to and claimed by the receiver's bank.

Just because the sender's bank says the funds have been sent doesn't mean the e-mail or text message has been sent. With some banks, the actual e-mail or text message isn't sent until 30 minutes to an hour afterward. Sender can definitely cancel the Interac e-transfer during that time.

The seller in the story never received any confirmation from her bank that the Interac e-Transfer completed. She relied on the seller showing her the confirmaton from his bank on his phone that the e-Transfer was sent to her.

Pythagoras said

Could someone explain whether the lady affected by the scam did something wrong?
How can one know whether an e-transfer link one receives is fake or not?

She clicked on a link to a fake e-Transfer site and picked Tangerine Bank to deposit the funds.

She then provided her Tangerine online banking ID and password to a site other than the Tangerine online banking site.. A one-time verification code came from Tangerine Bank. She provided that too.

Scammer used all that to log in succesfully into her Tangerine online banking. Scammer then sent a $2,740 Interac e-Transfer out of her Tangerine account.

When claiming an Interac e-Transfer, one should be directed from Interac's site to the web site of one's own bank. ID, password, and any one-time code should be provided to the bank's site and not to Interac's site.