Uber used in bank card scam
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The Guelph Police Service is investigating after an Uber driver was unwittingly used to defraud a Guelph woman of nearly $5,000.
On Thursday night, officers spoke to a Guelph woman in her 60s. She advised she received a call from someone claiming to be with her bank’s fraud department and reporting suspicious transactions on her account. The caller instructed the woman to cut her debit and credit cards in half and a courier would come and collect them.
A short time later a man attended the victim’s address and was given an envelope with the cards. Officers spoke to the driver, who explained he works for Uber and received a courier order to collect a package from the victim’s address and deliver it to Toronto.
When he arrived he was met in a parking lot by a male who said he was there to collect the envelope. A short time later the cards were used to withdraw $2,480 and make more than $2,300 in purchases.
The investigation is ongoing.