Two folks bilked out of mixed $5,400 following incidents at financial institution machines in Alliston and Tottenham on Sunday
NEW TECUMSETH — Provincial police have launched a fraud investigation after two folks had been bilked out of a mixed $5,400 on Sunday.
Nottawasaga OPP is on the lookout for the general public’s assist to determine three people concerned.
On Jan. 5, 2025, between the hours of two p.m. and three p.m., police say officers responded to 2 fraud incidents on the CIBC financial institution situated at 35 Younger St., in Alliston, the place the sufferer misplaced $1,600, and the CIBC financial institution situated at 55 Queen St. S., in Tottenham, the place the sufferer misplaced $3,800.
“Video surveillance reveals that the victims seem like finishing their transactions at an ATM, going to go away the premises and are then known as again by the suspect a which era, they inform he sufferer that their transaction hasn’t accomplished and due to this fact they cannot use the ATM,” OPP acknowledged in a information launch.
“The suspect will try and display the issue to the sufferer by placing an unidentified card within the machine that then reveals an error,” police say. “The suspects then bodily take the cardboard out of the sufferer’s hand, places it partially into the ATM, hits cancel after which palms them again what they assume is their card, however in actuality is another person’s, or probably a faux card.”
The true card is then used to withdraw cash from the sufferer’s checking account and, within the case of the prevalence in Tottenham, police say the cardboard was additionally used to to buy a number of pay as you go bank cards at native retailers.
Video surveillance additionally seems that the male topic removes one of many shields supposed to assist conceal a PIN quantity, after which observes the PIN entry over the sufferer’s shoulder, in response to the OPP launch.
Officers need to determine the people concerned.
Anybody with info is requested to name the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Case reference numbers are E250018227 and E250018291.
Data can be submitted anonymously by contacting Crime Stoppers by cellphone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or on-line.
