Prince George, B.C.- Winnipeg Police Services are looking for information on a   Victoria to Montreal crime spree.

According to Winnipeg police, the fraud   would see one person call a business, usually a large chain store, and order thousands of dollars in gift cards.   A person would show up the following day and pay for the gift cards with what appeared to be a certified cheque. The cheque was a fake, but a very good fake. The delay between the delivery of the gift cards and the banking system realizing there was no such   account was, in   some cases,   almost a month.

This fraud has been perpetrated dozens of times across the country within the last two months with some businesses just finding out now that the “certified cheque” was bogus. To date, one large chain store in Prince George has been defrauded of $13 thousand dollars.

Two young women are in custody in Winnipeg, accused of being the perpetrators of this fraud.

Anyone with   information or who believes they were caught in this fraud,   is asked to contact the Prince George detachment of the RCMP at   250-51-3300 and ask for Constable Cody King.