If you get a text about poppy centres being available through the Saskatoon Poppy Campaign office, with a link to click on, don’t do it. Co-Chair of the campaign, Donna Flahr says the number that is highlighted which you are to click on is their office landline, but she doesn’t know what or who it will actually link you to. She also advises not to reply back to the texter, because it is a scam.

Flahr calls in appalling, saying that veterans deserve to be honoured instead of a charitable organization raising funds for them being scammed. Flahr has contacted Provincial Command in case this is happening elsewhere, and the police have been notified, but so far there has been no fraud reported, so their advice was to get the word out to the public.

Veteran and Saskatoon Vice Chair of the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at SaskTel Centre, Malcolm Young, stated recently that some people try to take advantage of the emotion attached to the poppy and the sacrifice it represents by selling them online or over the phone. He advises not to fall for the scam.