Peel Regional Police have booked two Indian-origin men in connection with an apartment rental fraud in Mississauga in which eight people were allegedly duped of more than $30,000.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Peel police said the duo allegedly defrauded eight people through an apartment rental scheme in Mississauga.<\/p>\n
According to police, the scheme began early last year when two men from Saskatchewan and British Columbia advertised rental opportunities on social media.<\/p>\n
Victims were shown an apartment and met individuals posing as tenants. After signing agreements online, they sent deposits by e-transfer. When they arrived to move in, the unit was unavailable and the supposed landlord could not be reached.<\/p>\n
Investigators confirmed that at least eight victims lost money and none received accommodation or refunds.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspects had rented the unit themselves through a short-term rental platform, and the actual owners are not implicated.<\/p>\n
Arrest warrants have been issued for Jashanpreet Sidhu, 23, of Saskatoon, and Priyanshu Goel, 24, of Surrey, British Columbia, on charges of fraud over $5,000. The suspects are currently on the run.<\/p>\n
Sidhu also faces a charge of possession of property obtained by crime. Police said no images of the suspects are available.<\/p>\n
Authorities are urging caution when searching for rentals. They advise verifying the identity of property owners and avoiding pressure to sign agreements or send deposits without proper checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel Regional Police have booked two Indian-origin men in connection with an apartment rental fraud in Mississauga in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[296611,105842,296612,296613,286806,296614,296615,286809,49,48,158237,55405,296616],"class_list":["post-852855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-apartmentrental","tag-canadanews","tag-fraudalert","tag-mississaugafraud","tag-peelpolice","tag-realestatescam","tag-rentalscam","tag-tenantscam","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indianorigin","tag-mississauga","tag-onlinefraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852855","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=852855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}