Toronto police are warning the public about a scam involving a fake pizza delivery driver after a woman in North York had her debit card swapped with another card.
was approached last FridayOne of the men exited the vehicle and allegedly told the woman that the other man was a pizza delivery person he was trying to pay but would not accept cash.
Police said the man then asked the woman to pay for the driver using her debit card, and in return, he would compensate her with $20 in cash, which he showed her. The woman agreed, and police said she later discovered that her debit card had been switched with another card. The two suspects are described as 20 to 25 years old. The driver had a beard, while the other man is believed to be white, five-foot-four, with curly light brown hair and wearing a black jacket.In a separate incident in Mississauga, a woman was defrauded $2,400 by a man posing as a pizza delivery driver.that she was parked in front of her house when a man knocked on her window and explained that he had ordered pizza but couldn’t pay for it since the delivery driver didn’t accept cash.
“There is only one way to protect yourself from these types of scams: never let anyone but you tap, swipe, or insert your card into a machine,” Peel police said.
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