Toronto Cab drives scam millions in debit card fraud

james t kirk said:

Toronto Police are warning the public to be careful when using debit cards in taxis after charging a ring of crooked cabbies with more than 250 counts of fraud and identity theft.

Six people are alleged to have stolen millions of dollars from unsuspecting customers around the GTA in recent years—often without a customer's knowledge.

It all links back to an elaborate (and recurring) scheme involving rigged Point of Sale machines, decoy debit cards, stolen PINS and drained bank accounts.

Here's how it works, according to police:

Drivers pick up a customer in the early morning or evening hours and drive them to their destination. When the customer attempts to pay using debit or credit, they're handed an "altered Point of Sale" machine by the driver.

The customer enters their PIN, at which point the machine returns an error. The driver then asks for the machine back—with the card still in it—to see what's going on. At this point, the driver switches the passenger's actual debit card with someone else's from the same banking institution.

It normally isn't until later that the customers realizes that their PIN was recorded by the fake Point of Sale machine. All a cabbie needs to do is hit up the bank, enter your code, and voila: Your cash is now their cash.

"The customer's funds are depleted from their accounts fraudulently," explains a Toronto Police media release. "The customer usually has no knowledge of the fraud until the bank notifies them, or they attempt to utilize the card provided to them by the driver at a later date, realizing it has been swapped."

This past November, one victim told the CBC that he'd been bilked out of $3,500 by fraudsters. Another victim said he lost $4,100 in one fell swoop.

Link:

https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/01/toronto-taxi-drivers-busted-scamming-hundreds-passengers/

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derrick76 said:

Relevance? Other than to satisfy your racist mind and curiosity, of course.

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Fathammer said:

Answer me this.

If you had were walking down an alley in a bad part of town at night and had to choose between walking down an alley with a minority at the end of it or the alley with a white person at the end of it, which would YOU choose?

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eatpills said:

All Chinese immigrants are in tech or finance.

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TeeJay said:

Really?
You would change direction and run if you saw a person who was a visible minority a block away "down an alley"?

LMAO you aren't even talking about gangs just a single person of the wrong colour

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Fathammer said:

I wouldnt run. Just pick the alley with the white guy. I wouldnt make the mistake of picking the other alley.

Kinda like going for a ride along with a cop wearing a bullet proof vest through the Jane and Finch area........

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TeeJay said:

Run / brisk walk / hop skip and jump

Whatever mode of transportation you decide to do

A) if said minority was out to get you he will pursue you
B) if you were simply being racist he would not follow you

Its funny you are scared though

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Fathammer said:

If the number of crimes are committed by a particular race ie, white, black, brown, etc, I would want to stay the fuck away from them!

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Darts said:

These black cab drivers would agree with you.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-larosa/nyc-cab-drivers-blacks_b_6116602.html

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blueray said:

As a general rule, the cabs were disgusting dirty and smelt. The drivers also as a general rule were rude, also smelled, and would talk non-stop on their phones during my trip in a language other than English. Fuck the cabbies

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