"If people are really pressuring you to give money right there on the spot... take a step back." But some people are trying to take advantage of that generosity, warns Ron Mycholuk of the central and northern Alberta Better Business Bureau. "It's really easy to take advantage of web hosting software and put up a website that looks really legitimate," said Mycholuk. The most prevalent scams are fake charities collecting online or door-to-door, he said. Scamming the governmentIt's not just the evacuees who need to look out for people looking to profit from the wildfire's path of destruction.

Source: CBC News May 20, 2016 07:26 UTC