{"id":530453,"date":"2026-03-12T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:34:19","slug":"brampton-man-charged-after-guelph-resident-defrauded-of-more-than-31000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530453\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man charged after Guelph resident defrauded of more than $31,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Brampton man has been charged after a Guelph resident was allegedly defrauded of more than $31,000 through a business loan scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guelph Police say the victim was introduced to the suspect through a mutual friend last summer while looking into applying for a business loan. The suspect allegedly offered to assist with the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say the two men set up a registered company and opened a company bank account. During that process, the victim provided personal information including his banking details and social insurance number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that in December, two unknown individuals deposited several fraudulent cheques into the account and immediately withdrew the funds before the cheques were returned by the bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The activity left the victim\u2019s account with a negative balance of more than $31,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When the victim later confronted the suspect, police say the man stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 33-year-old Brampton man was arrested Monday and charged with fraud over $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brampton man has been charged after a Guelph resident was allegedly defrauded of more than $31,000 through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-530453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530453","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=530453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}