Residents are being warned a few phone rip-off through which a fraudster makes use of an actual Toronto police telephone quantity to persuade individuals handy over their private info.
Toronto police say they have acquired a number of reviews of individuals getting telephone calls from a caller posing as a police officer.
In a information launch Friday, police stated the fraudsters are utilizing caller ID spoofing, making it seem that the decision is coming from a respectable enterprise or authorities company, such because the Toronto Police Service, however in actual fact, it isn’t, police stated.
The caller ID reveals a telephone variety of (416) 808-5200, which is an precise telephone quantity for Toronto police’s 52 division, however the calls aren’t coming from the Toronto police, police say.
Police say the caller offers a false identify and badge quantity, claiming to be investigating fraudulent exercise. The caller then says to contact the Chinese language authorities to report such exercise, and may additionally place a video name and document the interplay.
“The Toronto Police Service is reminding the general public that in the event that they obtain a telephone name from somebody figuring out themselves as a police officer, acquire their identify and badge quantity, then name again the police instantly to substantiate whether or not it’s a respectable name,” police stated within the launch.
“By no means present private info to an unknown particular person over the telephone.”
Anybody with details about the rip-off is urged to name police at 416-808-5200, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
