{"id":138609,"date":"2025-09-12T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138609\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:50:11","slug":"3d-printer-used-to-scam-esquimalt-charity-with-counterfeit-tokens-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138609\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printer used to scam Esquimalt charity with counterfeit tokens &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Several children\u2019s charities are out thousands of dollars after an incident of fraud that happened at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/esquimalt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esquimalt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ribfest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ribfest<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria police said at the end of the event, held in the 1100 block of Lyall Street from Sept. 5 to 7, they received a report about the use of counterfeit tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Initial indications suggest the tokens were likely produced using a 3D printer, police said, and someone made several hundreds of copies of the $8 token used to purchase beer, wine and coolers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery festival that uses these plastic tokens, it\u2019s a shot across the bow,\u201d Tom Woods, the Esquimalt Ribfest Committee chair, told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t do this anymore because you can show up in the morning with a digital printer, buy one token and go home and create 50 of them, right? So we all have to figure out different ways. There\u2019s ways you can load a wristband and then tap the wristband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The loss, estimated to be about $2,000, has been raised by business and community members once they heard about the missing amount.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Police warn parents about 3-D printed weapons'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/p1ykgugwt8-ht07u0vjak\/GUN_WEB.png?w=1040&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:07<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice warn parents about 3-D printed weapons\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11409107\/mark-carney-major-projects-first-reveal\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757681410_406_cc29e39277857dfa7c5fff58b67b5a16721e69a5a57f1d8f7b721cc0c1113e99.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHere are the 1st major projects Carney says are in \u2018national interest\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11408766\/cra-changes-financial-relief-voluntary-disclosures\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757681410_838_CRA-website.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNeed to disclose a tax mistake? The CRA says these coming changes will help\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a disappointing incident, particularly given the important role Ribfest plays in our community,\u201d Insp. Conor King, VicPD Esquimalt Division, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of 3D printing to create counterfeit currency, even in a localized event like this, is concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who may have encountered suspicious activity during the event or who has information regarding the counterfeit tokens to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are particularly interested in anyone who may have observed individuals attempting to exchange an unusually large number of tokens, or who may have noticed anything out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the E-Comm non-emergency line at 250-995-7654 ext. 1 and reference file number 25-35469 or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Several children\u2019s charities are out thousands of dollars after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23271,49,48,2169,74910,44,74911],"class_list":["post-138609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-3d-printing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-esquimalt","tag-news","tag-ribfest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}