A Williams Lake drug store is warning the public about a gift card scam circulating this week in the city.
One of the store’s employee said Wednesday that five people came into the store in the last two days to buy $1,000 to $2,000 worth of gift cards.
When asked if they were buying the gift cards for themselves, the customers had someone on the cell phone at the time asking them to make the purchases.
Fortunately the customers were discouraged from buying the cards from the staff and did not.
The scams taking place aske people to make payments over the phone for things such as taxes, bail money, debt collection and utility bills.
In 2023 as of March 31, there have been 18,654 reports to the Canadian Fraud Centre with 12,094 victims of fraud for a loss of $133 million.
Statistics for 2022 are 92,078 reports of fraud, 57,578 victims of fraud for a loss of $531 million.
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