Police request assistance with online cottage rental fraud investigation
Public Safety Alert
The Toronto Police Service would like to make the public aware of an ongoing fraud investigation.
It is reported that:
- between June 2012 and August 2012, several people responded to advertisements for a cottage rental on Three Mile Lake in Emsdale, Ontario, which have been posted online on Kijiji.ca and Craigslist.ca -
- in the advertisements, the suspect(s) describes the cottage rental as a 1600-square-foot beautiful cottage, on spring-fed, Three Mile Lake (Mustoka/Huntsville area) with the email address of seasonrentals@yahoo.com -
- the suspect(s) uses the names of David and Melissa White in the advertisements -
- the suspect(s) requested payment to be made through an e-mail money transfer -
- once the suspect(s) receives the payment, the suspect(s) stops all communication with the victims