Pharmacist tricked out of $8000 for car

Po­lice are once again urg­ing the pub­lic to be wary of scams where peo­ple are asked to de­posit mon­ey to strangers in ex­change for items ad­ver­tised as be­ing for sale, af­ter a 30-year-old phar­ma­cist was tricked out of $8000.

Po­lice said the man re­spond­ed to an ad­ver­tise­ment on Face­book Mar­ket­place ot a Nis­san Blue­bird Syl­phy for sale on Wednes­day.

The vic­tim re­port­ed­ly con­tact­ed the num­ber pro­vid­ed in the ad­ver­tise­ment who ad­vised him to de­posit $4000 in cash to a bank ac­count.

One day lat­er a stranger who iden­ti­fied him as the own­er of the ve­hi­cle for sale, in­struct­ed him to de­posit an­oth­er $4000 in cash to the same ac­count, which he did, how­ev­er the vic­tim re­port­ed that the stranger blocked him on What­sApp and was un­able to con­tact the per­son since.Of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad and the West­ern Di­vi­sion are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.