A Meaford resident got a surprise in the mail recently.
Grey County OPP say the man thought he had bought an iPhone online.
What he got instead was a bar of soap.
The victim called police Tuesday to say he had been scammed out of $275.
In mid-November 2014, the victim had purchased the iPhone from a private seller in the Kingston area on Kijiji.
When the phone failed to arrive within a reasonable time, he contacted the seller who offered an explanation in that a friend’s mother was in medical distress.
When the parcel finally did arrive, the victim discovered a bar of soap inside instead of the iPhone.
The fraud was reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
To learn more about fraud, or to report a scam, call the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or visit their website at www.antifraudcentre.ca.