{"id":840194,"date":"2026-08-01T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840194\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:39:13","slug":"man-arrested-for-using-another-mans-aeroplan-miles-for-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840194\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for using another man&#8217;s Aeroplan miles for flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Quebec man has been arrested more than a year after a Guelph resident reported someone fraudulently using his Aeroplan account to book several flights.<\/p>\n<p>In January, 2025, a Guelph man fell victim to a scam and his cellphone became compromised. He took steps afterwards to change his passwords and increase his security, but forgot to change the email associated to his Aeroplan account.<\/p>\n<p>The account was later used to book several flights within Canada. The victim lost the equivalent of nearly $2,100 in points.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, police in Quebec arrested a 23-year-old Montreal man for fraud under $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Quebec man has been arrested more than a year after a Guelph resident reported someone fraudulently using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-840194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840194","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=840194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}