A 33 year-old Regina male faces 23 charges, including identity theft and fraud after an arrest late yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at approximately 5:20 p.m., police were dispatched to the 1800 block of Saskatchewan Drive for the report of a male wanted on warrants. Security staff recognized a male listed as wanted…
If we say the word “scam”, you’ve probably heard about some of the latest ways criminals try to defraud honest Canadians: the Grandparent Scam, the Romance Scam, the Bank Inspector scam, “Your SIN number has been compromised”, “You’ve won a prize (and you just have to pay the handling fees)…” etc. The list goes on…
Remember being told it’s not nice to hang up the phone on somebody else? It’s time to reconsider the value of that etiquette, especially now in world of telephone and online scams. Hanging up is your very best defence when a scammer calls. Phone scams and frauds have been a problem for a long time,…
The Regina Police Service would like to make people aware of a recent scam that has been recently reported to police. The scam, is most often initialized by a phone call from a person claiming to be an employee from the potential victim’s banking institution who calls warning that they believe that their credit card…
The Regina Police Service would like to make the public aware of a scam that has resurfaced again in Regina. Two cases of the “Grandparent” scam were reported to the Regina Police Service today alone (February 11, 2022). One of the cases was completed successfully and the victim lost nearly $8,000 to the fraud artist.…