Fraud fatigue: Have you caught it?

Canadians today view the growing ubiquity of digital fraud with a mixture of alarm and exhausted resignation. More than a quarter of respondents to Equifax Canada’s most recent Fraud Survey, conducted in February 2026, said they feel numb to suspicious messages and simply delete them without taking further precautions. More than a quarter (28%) characterized the volume of fraud attempts as a “manageable annoyance,” 16% said they felt “anxious and tired” trying to so