With the holiday season just around the corner, scammers will be trying their hardest to get their hands on your hard earned cash. Constable Sean O'Keefe is media liason for the Portage la Prairie RCMP, and says a popular scam involves impersonating the Canada Revenue Agency.

"A scammer will call and insist that the person on the other end owes money to Canada Revenue in back taxes or in fines," says O'Keefe. "And will ask for them to pay it through a credit card or through a money order or sometimes through the purchase of other redeemable cards such as itunes or Amazon gift cards -- very hard to track."

He says another tactic involves fraudulent invoices that appear to be from Bell or MTS and if you get an email from them asking for a different kind of payment method than usual, it's likely a scam. He explains if you think you're dealing with a scammer you should ask them for more information about themselves, noting it usually goes a long way in stopping a scam before it happens.