A 32-year-old Markham man is wanted on 21 fraud-related charges after Durham Regional Police sought public assistance in identifying a male suspect allegedly involved in multiple telephone banking frauds in Bowmanville.
Cops allege on Sept. 24, an elderly female received a phone call from a male claiming to work for the bank who said there were fraudulent transactions on her debit and credit cards, and her accounts had been compromised.
Police further allege the male gathered personal information from the victim and told her she needed to provide her pin number to receive new cards and that a courier would come to her address shortly to pick up the compromised cards and the new cards would be sent to her the next day.
While the victim was still on the phone with the male, cops said another male allegedly arrived at the victim’s residence and retrieved the debit and credit cards from her and the victim was told to remain on the phone for technical difficulties before the line disconnected.
The suspect retrieved the victim’s debit and credit cards, numerous fraudulent transactions were completed and the same suspect who allegedly retrieved the debit/credit cards was seen on camera in Bowmanville, Courtice, and Oshawa completing these transactions.
Thanushan Uruthiramoorthy is wanted for 15 counts of use credit card obtained by crime, three counts of fraud over $5000, fraud under $5000, two counts of possess identity info for fraudulent offence and one count of fraud under $5,000.
Anyone with cellphone, dashcam, surveillance footage, or information about this incident is asked to call police at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5371, or contact Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or at durhamregionalcrimestoppers.ca.