14-year-old boy charged in connection with taxi scam in Toronto

Toronto: A 14-year-old boy has been arrested by Toronto police in connection with an investigation into the taxi cab scam.

On October 17, officials were informed of an incident of scam in the parking lot of a mall in lawrence avenue east area on Markham Road in Scarborough.

According to Toronto police, miscreants park a taxi-matching vehicle in an area of dense traffic, such as the mall’s parking lot, where one of the suspects pose as a driver and another as a customer.

The two suspect pretend to fight over the issue of non-acceptance of cash payments in cabs due to Covid-19. Then a person pays money for the customer with his credit or debit card in exchange for cash.

These people divert the attention of this person and replace his card with another card. In the modified machine, the card of that person is found and the machine records the data and PIN number of that person’s debit or credit card.

Then by collecting the card information of that person, the miscreants transact the money in a fake way. The police received information about such a fake taxi cab on October 17. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested by the police. His identity has not been disclosed under the Youth Criminal Justin Act.

Two days earlier, a woman had claimed that a teenage boy had approached her in Toronto and had even begged her to pay for her taxi cab with her debit or credit card.

When the woman made the payment with her card, she found that the card returned to her was not hers and asked the driver to return her original card.

But they refused to do so and exchanged hearted arguments with her. They both suspect wore on masks fled from the spot. But the woman recorded the entire conversation on the phone and also made a video of the incident. This video was also viral on TikTok.