On Wednesday, July 5, 2023, Kelowna RCMP have been contacted and suggested of a achievable scam in which a person ordered a large total of hardwood flooring making use of fake identification and a stolen credit score card.
Peter Kowalski of Kelowna Flooring experienced earlier negotiated a offer with a male by the identify of “Steve Brown” who acquired around $30,000 in hardwood flooring to be transported throughout the country. As per business plan, Brown was essential to give a copy of his identification and when he did, Kowalski grew to become suspect of the id. Kowalski furnished the identification to the Kelowna RCMP who confirmed the identification was fraudulent.
Kowalski determined as a result of his market associates that Brown manufactured very similar purchases at competing enterprises, including $25,000 at Categorical Flooring and a different $25,000 at Dannburg Flooring. Dustin Dyck of Convey Flooring knowledgeable law enforcement of a scheduled decide up for his acquired solution, which experienced since been identified to be fraudulent, which delivered law enforcement an prospect to intercept.
On July 7, 2023, Kelowna RCMP intercepted a freight business that had arrived to obtain the product or service from Convey Flooring. The driver and passenger from the vehicle were being arrested nonetheless afterwards unveiled as they ended up not thought to have understanding of the offences.
Police seized close to $100,000 in flooring also considered to be received fraudulently from flooring shops positioned in Richmond, Kamloops and Salmon Arm. The vehicle was scheduled to transport the flooring to Quebec on July 10 with extra stops and pickups beforehand. The businesses connected to the added pickups were being contacted and knowledgeable of the fraud.
Kelowna RCMP are still investigating this issue and engaging their partners across the place to assist as necessary.
“This is a textbook case in point why stores should really have interior policies as it relates to higher-price purchases using credit playing cards, in particular around the phone” Cpl. Michael Gauthier i/c Media Relations Unit. “Thanks to an observant retailer proprietor and cooperation from a number of others, we recovered and probable prevented an additional handful of significant benefit fraudulent buys. We rely intensely on the industry experts in our neighborhood to recognize when a thing doesn’t experience suitable, and in return only request that they arrive at out for our assist when it doesn’t.”