News Archive November 2011

Waterloo Regional Police are proactively alerting the community to a credit card security scam.

A victim receives a phone call from a person claiming to work in the Security and Fraud Department of the victim's credit card issuer. The caller has the victim's name and credit card number and will state that there has been an unusual purchase pattern on the card, often in another country and that the credit card company will be assuming that charge, and crediting the victim's account.

On Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:24 a.m. a lone male operating a grey Dodge Magnum drove through the front entrance of Waterloo Regional Police Service headquarters, located at 200 Maple Grove Road in Cambridge. The vehicle travelled approximately 30 meters within the confines of the lobby and came to rest alongside the reception area of the Records Branch.