A fraudster who pretends to be a bank employee to steal bank cards continues to attack seniors, police in Sherbrooke, in the Eastern Townships, warned on Friday.
The modus operandi would be the same each time: the individual would pose as a bank or credit union employee over the phone to inform their victims that their credit or debit card had been defrauded.
He would then ask his victims to hand over their cards as well as their PINs to a delivery person, “who, by chance, is already on site in front of their residence”, or to place them in their mailbox, specified the Police Department of Sherbrooke (SPS) in its press release.
“In the seven files investigated this week by the SPS, the victims were over 60 years old,” added the police force. In this type of fraud, the suspects are often very insistent.”
Thus, the SPS asks the population to be on their guard and not to hesitate to hang up and contact the police.