Credit card fraud rose sharply in the first half of 2025, according to a trends report by Equifax Canada. Photo by Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Credit card fraud rose sharply in the first half of 2025, according to a trends report by Equifax Canada .

Released Oct. 1, the Equifax report said third-party fraud now drives 83 per cent of all fraudulent credit card activity, with identity fraud accounting for 78 per cent of those cases.

Middle-aged Canadians are increasingly being targeted, especially in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, which had the sharpest increases. Those two regions also had a rise in delinquency rates

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