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What should I do if I think I have been scammed by a fake broker?

Report it immediately rather than trying to resolve it yourself. Confirm whether the person was ever licensed through the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission's public register, then contact your bank within 24 hours if any money moved, file a report with local police, and report the incident to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre so the pattern gets tracked province-wide.

A real licensee has a public licence number you can check before wiring anything, and no legitimate deal ever requires funds to move outside your lawyer's trust account. If someone asked you to send money directly to them, to a personal account, or through an unusual payment method, that alone is the clearest signal something is wrong.

Saskatchewan closings run through a lawyer, and every transaction should route deposit money into that lawyer's trust account, not to an agent or a private individual. If you already sent funds, your bank's fraud department and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre both need the transaction details right away, since speed matters more than anything else in recovering a wire.

Going forward, verify licence status before you sign anything and use only the contact details you sourced yourself, not the ones a suspicious message gave you. Joel Dyck is happy to confirm his own licensing details directly if you want a second point of comparison. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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