{"id":98927,"date":"2025-08-26T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98927\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:42:07","slug":"toronto-police-warn-public-about-e-transfer-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98927\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police warn public about e-transfer scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are warning the public about an ongoing e-transfer scam after investigators say victims were approached by a suspect near malls and other public spaces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As part of the scam, police said, a suspect approaches victims and asks them to send $10 or $20 through an e-transfer in exchange for cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim provides their cellphone to the suspect, with their banking app open, and the suspect transfers upwards of $3,000 into their own account. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect then returns the phone to the victim and flees the area, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is not clear how victims have been targeted in the scam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police offered tips to members of the public for fraud prevention, including maintaining possession of your phone while completing the transfer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNever allow strangers to access your banking information on your phone,\u201d police said in a news release issued Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the scam can contact police at 416-808-3300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Victims of fraud can also report the incident to local police and to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/report-signalez-eng.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/report-signalez-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\">online reporting system<\/a> or by phone at 1-888-495-8501.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are warning the public about an ongoing e-transfer scam after investigators say victims were approached by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-98927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98927","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=98927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}