Toronto police warn of phone scam where fraudsters claim to be Shanghai police

CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 3:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Toronto constabulary are informing the nationalist astir a telephone scam involving fraudsters claiming to beryllium officers from the Shanghai police.

In a quality merchandise connected Thursday, constabulary said it is believed the calls are being utilized to get idiosyncratic and fiscal accusation for fraudulent purposes.

Police accidental individual scammers contact radical by phone, claiming to beryllium a subordinate of the Shanghai police, and supply a mendacious sanction and badge number. The scammer's caller ID appears arsenic the telephone fig for the Toronto Police Service's 52 Division, constabulary say. 

Police accidental the scammers claim they are investigating fraudulent recognition paper enactment involving the idiosyncratic and the different extremity of the phone and asks them to supply idiosyncratic banking accusation to halt the alleged fraud.

"If you person a telephone telephone from idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium a constabulary officer, inquire for their sanction and badge number, past bent up and telephone constabulary straight to verify their identity," constabulary said successful the release.

Police are besides reminding radical to ne'er supply idiosyncratic oregon banking accusation to idiosyncratic implicit the telephone and accidental that "any specified petition should beryllium treated arsenic a scam."