Multi-Media Tools

The Competition Bureau has developed multimedia tools to introduce specific topics to Canadian consumers and businesses.

• Bid-Rigging — Awareness and Prevention
  A multimedia tool designed to help business identify the warning signs of bid-rigging.
• CA Identification Number
  The CA Number Database provides the name and postal address of each Canadian textile business who has been assigned a CA Identification Number. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
• The FACT Campaign: Fraud Awareness for Commercial Targets
  The Fraud Awareness for Commercial Targets (FACT) campaign is an outreach and education initiative of the Competition Bureau that provides businesses and not-for-profit organizations with the facts necessary to avoid becoming victims of fraud, which costs them millions of dollars annually.
  • Train Your Staff to Stop Fraud
    (Multi-Media Tool — Presentation)
    This downloadable self-guided learning tool is a powerful, and insightful look at mass marketing fraud and how it can victimize any organization, large or small.
• Fraud Quizzes
  • Anatomy of an Online Health Scam
    This interactive web tool is designed to teach you how to identify some of the tactics and tricks commonly used by scammers selling bogus cancer cures or treatments online.
  • "Fraud! Are you at risk?" Quiz
    In today's tough economic times, fraudsters are as aggressive as ever in their attempts to defraud innocent victims of their hard earned cash.
  • "Recognize the Scam" Quiz
    There are many different types of fraud and scams perpetrated in Canada every day. In this interactive quiz, you will find questions to test your awareness of some of these scams. There are also helpful tips to educate you on how to avoid falling victim to these types of scams.
• Glucobate, the all-natural diabetes breakthrough
  A fake Web site intended to illustrate common online scam techniques
• Health Fraud Awareness Quiz
  The following interactive flash quiz tests your knowledge of the tactics used by scammers who sell bogus cancer cures and treatments online, and teaches you how to avoid falling victim.
• Labelling Assessment Tools
  These products are intended to assist you in meeting the labelling requirements of federal legislation.
• Multi-level Marketing and the Competition Act
  A multimedia tool designed to inform Canadian businesses and consumers about the multi-level marketing and pyramid selling provisions of the Act
• Understanding How the Ordinary Selling Price Provisions of the Competition Act Apply to Your Business
  This bulletin outlines how Ordinary Selling Price Provisions of the Competition Act apply to your business to help keep consumers and costomers from harm.