TikTok has been serving as a great platform for residents of Toronto to warn one another about all sorts of news, including scams that they or some...
is now notifying others of a different type of fraud in which"a little girl" is used to convince people to hand over their bank cards.
"There's a new scam happening in Toronto right now and I wanted to come on here and talk about it because my friend got burned by it," the citizen starts, going on to explain how her friend ended up getting swindled after being asked to help a child pay for a pizza order. The younger girl, who approached the individual's car in the Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood with a $20 bill, said that she had ordered a pizza from a delivery person that would not accept cash.
She then asked if she could give the woman the $20 in exchange for the use of her card to pay for the food. "For most people, red flags would go off, but my friend is literally the nicest human on earth, so she saw a little girl that needed help and was like, 'okay, sure,'" the poster of the widely-shared video says.
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