Puskar) Watch for the uniform, Domino’s saysĭomino’s does put the customer’s information on their pizza boxes for delivery, but the relationship between the two men who delivered food to Yakhni that night is currently unknown. “He said, the guy met me downstairs and he gave me $40 cash and was like, keep the change.”Ī small Domino's pizza (AP Photo/Gene J. “So I called the second driver, who actually was in uniform.and said, how did you know that I didn’t get my wings if you didn't see me and he’s like, oh somebody met me downstairs, said that they were Mike,” Yakhni said. Yakhni then opened is TD Bank app on his phone and discovered that $1,000 had been withdrawn from his account from an ATM machine. The tap function didn’t work and when he inserted his card to put in his pin, the machine read “invalid pin.” That’s when he turned the card over and realized it wasn’t his. The next time Yakhni used his debit card was Monday, July 8 to buy a coffee at Tim Hortons that morning. RELATED: What you need to now about the latest debit scam Yakhni said the situation was definitely “odd” but at the time, he had just finished playing multiple baseball games and admitted he “wasn’t really thinking” because he was tired.
When he arrived at the street level of his building, a different man was standing there waiting for him wearing a Domino’s uniform. Then Yakhni’s cell phone rings and it’s a Domino’s delivery person on the line asking him to come downstairs to pick up his wings. When the individual went down to get the rest of Yakhni’s order, he went onto his balcony and allegedly saw the man jog out of his apartment building and get into the passenger’s side of a black car. “So I enter my pin and then it goes through, I don’t a receipt.”Īt this time, Yakhni’s dog started barking so he left the man at the door for what the customer describes as “about 20 seconds,” while he moved his dog to another room. “I tapped my card on his machine and it didn’t work and he said, here let me have your card I’ll insert it,” Yakhni told Yahoo Canada. He asked about his missing wings and the individual said he had forgotten them in his car but he would run down to grab them and be back in six minutes.īefore he went back down for the wings, Yakhni paid for his order on a hand-held payment terminal using his debit card. Around half an hour later, a man arrived at his apartment door holding his pizza and the drink. to order a pepperoni pizza, eight boneless chicken wings and a Coke on the Saturday night.
Mike Yakhni from the Etobicoke area of Toronto was a victim of this scam earlier this month after ordering food from a local Domino’s Pizza on July 6.
The scammers then go to a nearby ATM to withdraw money and make fraudulent transactions with the card. The customer’s debit card is compromised when they pay on a hand-held payment machine and their card is swapped for a similar looking, but non-active card. Police have reported that these incidents include orders being intercepted by a suspect, who then delivers the pizza to the customer. “Since mid-july Toronto Police, as well as neighbouring Police Services in the GTA, have been receiving reports of incidents in which debit cards have been compromised by persons posing as pizza delivery drivers,” the release from officials states.
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