A Vancouver salon proprietor lately posted a video on TikTok of a lady apparently being arrested by Vancouver police outdoors her salon after allegedly trying to make use of a present card bought with a stolen bank card.
“I posted the video as a result of I'm pissed off and uninterested in being a sufferer of fraud,” stated the salon proprietor in an e-mail despatched to CTV Information.
“We've been victimized a number of occasions by fraudsters previously who used stolen bank cards to get providers and product, and acquired away with it.”
The video rapidly went viral, amassing practically 300,000 views. One other native enterprise proprietor acknowledged the alleged fraudster.
“I remembered her proper off the bat,” stated Kelly Touvongsa, proprietor of Vancouver Sculptlab.
Touvongsa says the identical lady used a stolen bank card to buy a number of providers from her enterprise.
“I don’t have insurance coverage that covers it,” stated Touvongsa. “It was an $800 present card.”
Touvongsa says she’s grateful to the salon proprietor for elevating consciousness on the problem and standing up for small companies who’ve been victims of fraud.
“I believed it was wonderful as a result of it gave me extra readability of the scenario with what was occurring,” stated Touvongsa. “I believed possibly the one that had bought the present card didn’t bear in mind buying it — now I do know it was fraud.”
The salon proprietor additionally informed CTV Information that her enterprise has had two tried break-ins over the previous month, costing her 1000's in insurance coverage deductibles.
She has since taken down the video, nevertheless, as a consequence of what she calls “a couple of web trolls” threatening her enterprise and employees. CTV Information agreed to maintain her id hid as a consequence of security issues. The proprietor, nevertheless, has no regrets in posting the video.
“We did our due diligence and there was no query that this woman had dedicated fraud,” stated the proprietor. “The one technique to cease these profession criminals is to indicate their faces so folks acknowledge them and see them coming.”
Vancouver police say the case remains to be underneath investigation and no fees have been laid. If a enterprise proprietor ever suspects a fraud has taken place, police say to right away name 911.
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