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What can you do if you witness or are a victim of financial exploitation?
What can you do if you witness or are a victim of financial exploitation?
Nobody, no matter what age, deserves to be exploited. You have the right to react and protect yourself.
Victims and witnesses of exploitation can get free and confidential help from several sources.
- Speak to someone you can trust (friend, relative, nurse, doctor, priest or minister, social worker or police officer).
- Notify your branch.
- Lodge a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission Toronto: 416-326-9511, outside Toronto: 1-800-387-5559.
- Call the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat, Seniors' InfoLine, toll-free: 1-888-910-1999, TTY: 1-800-387-5559.
