Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. Lynam, for being here today.
Just as a bit of context, I've had rather a rude awakening on this issue in the last few months with a number of constituents I've spoken to who have been defrauded—in some cases, out of small amounts, and in others, out of obscenely large ones.
One case that is burned into my mind is that of a man who was in tears at a town hall I was hosting on fraud prevention alongside the St. Thomas Police Service. He had been hoodwinked for a small amount by a crypto scam. Then he was scammed again by a person purporting to be part of an agency that would help him recoup his losses. In the end, he and his wife were drained of everything they had: $80,000. When he shared his story, everyone else put up their hands because they had their own stories.
These are happening with more and more frequency. I know and truly believe that you are committed to trying to stop this as much as possible. How often can you succeed in getting money back? How often is something being recovered in these scams?