Ottawa police charge two suspects in 'bank investigator' scams

Ottawa police charge two suspects in 'bank investigator' scams

The Ottawa Police Service has charged two suspects involved in a series of sophisticated frauds that resulted in $250,000 in victim losses.

A 25-year-old from Ottawa and a 22-year-old from Gatineau have both been charged with numerous fraud-related offences related to a bank investigator scam, police said in a news release Thursday.

In June, police issued an appeal for public assistance in identifying two suspects who had posed as bank fraud investigators and would contact victims by telephone using a fraudulent telephone ID to impersonate banks or financial institutions, claiming the victims’ accounts had been compromised.

They would request sensitive banking information such as passwords and PINs, then instruct the victims to

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