ontario woman loses $500 sending e-transfer to wrong phone number

A Mississauga, Ont. woman helping her aunt buy a flight to visit family in the Philippines was shocked she lost $500 while sending an e-transfer. “We found out I forgot to change the phone number to her new phone number and she didn’t get the money,” Rowena Jubinal told CTV News Toronto.

When you e-transfer, you can send it to an email address or mobile phone number, and Jubinal said she had her aunt’s phone number saved previously saved from a prior transaction. Jubinal sent a $500 e-transfer, the money was auto deposited, but her aunt said she never received the funds. Jubinal said she realized after that her aunt changed her phone number, so the money went to whoever had her aunt’s old number. So, Jubinal called her bank.

“They said they couldn’t do anything because it had already been deposited to the telephone owner’s number,” said Jubinal.

In 2022, Interac said there were over one billion e-transfers sent across Canada with very few problems. But,if you do happen to send money to the wrong recipient, it’s like you sent cash and it’s difficult to get it back.

“From a financial institution perspective, they try their hardest at stopping and holding the funds, but it’s not usually possible, because if someone received the 500 bucks they took off with it,” Anurag Kar, Associate Vice President of Money Movement with Interac, told CTV News Toronto. Interac said Canadians send about 2.5 million e-transfer each day. When sending e-transfers, the customer should check information is correct and include an effective security question with passwords that only the recipient would know. Interac also recommends setting up auto deposit, which is now used in 60 per cent of all etransfers, which can benefit the person sending the money as well as receiving it.

“We do recommend auto deposit because you have assurance where the money is ending up, you can see the name and the account, and from an experience perspective the beneficiary doesn’t have to click on anything to deposit the money - it’s deposited automatically” said Kar. If you have a problem with an e-transfer, Interac says you should deal with your financial institution to see if the funds can be recovered. Jubinal banks with TD

Bank, and CTV News Toronto asked TD to look into her case. When they did, Jubinal said the bank decided to refund her $500, which was great news for her. “I feel so happy and I am so thankful to get this back,” said Jubinal. Source: toronto.ctvnews.ca

Waters off the coast of Florida as hot as a hot tub, and more heat news from around the world

The water temperature off southern Florida has been about 38 C two days in a row: that’s as hot as a hot tub, as hot as the maximum recommended heat for a baby’s bath, and hotter than what’s usually recommended for a pregnant woman. It’s also, meteorologists say, possibly the hottest seawater ever measured. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says weather records for sea water temperature

Deadly Mediterranean wildfires kill more than 40

are unofficial and there are certain conditions in this reading that could disqualify it for a top mark, but the initial reading on a buoy at Manatee Bay hit about 38.4 C Monday evening. The night before, it was 37.9 C. “This is a hot tub. I like my hot tub around 100, 101, [37.8, 38.3 C]. That’s what was recorded yesterday,” said Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters. If verified, the Monday reading would break the prior record set in the waters off Kuwait three summers ago, 37.6 C. Bleaching — which doesn’t kill coral, but weakens it and can lead to death — occurs when water temperatures exceed the low 30s. This all comes as sea surface temperatures worldwide have broken monthly records for heat in April, May and June, according to NOAA.

Source: cbc.ca

US says Russian aircraft struck its drone with flare over Syria

Incident is latest in a series of recent encounters involving Russian fighter jets and US drones flying over Syria. The United States has said a Russian fighter jet struck an American drone with a flare over Syria at the weekend, with Washington again accusing Moscow of “unprofessional behaviour” in the skies above the country.

In a statement on Tuesday, US Air Forces Central said a Russian aircraft “flew dangerously close” to a US MQ-9 drone in the early hours of Sunday, “harassing” the drone and “deploying flares from a position overhead”. “One of the Russian flares struck the US MQ-9, severely damaging its propeller. Fortunately, the MQ-9 crew was able to maintain flight and safely recover the aircraft to its home base,” Lieutenant General Alex Grynke- wich, the head of US Air Forces Central, said. “We call upon the Russian forces in Syria to put an immediate end to this reckless, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior.”..

Source: aljazeera.com

India’s Modi to face no-confidence vote over Manipur violence

tion parties, to force the Hindu nationalist leader to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in a northeastern state. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of parliament, so the no-confidence vote will not affect its stability. The opposition instead wants to trigger a debate about the violence in remote, BJP-ruled Manipur state, in which more than 130 people have been killed and 60,000 displaced since it began in early May.

More than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts, and tens of thousands have been evacuated. Greece is preparing for more evacuation flights from Rhodes, as fires also rage on the islands of Corfu and Evia.The current long heatwave shows no let-up - temperatures are expected to rise above 44C (111F) in parts of Greece. Fires in Sicily and Puglia have forced thou- sands of people to flee. High winds and tinderdry vegetation mean firefighters are struggling in many areas to douse the flames and create firebreaks. The heaviest death toll so far is in Algeria, where the 34 victims included 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers. Bejaia is the worst-hit area, accounting for 23 of the deaths, local media report. Algerian authorities said 80% of the blazes had been put out since Sunday, but a massive firefighting effort continues, involving about 8,000 personnel, hundreds of fire trucks and some aircraft. Fires have also raged in neighbouring Tunisia, where 300 people had to be evacuated from the coastal village of Melloula. In Greece, the Civil Protection Ministry warned of an “extreme danger” of fire in six of the country’s 13 regions on Wednesday. Source: thedailystar.net

Mutinous soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s president, borders closed and curfew imposed

interfere. The announcement came after a day of uncertainty as members of Niger’s presidential guard surrounded the presidential palace and detained President Mohamed Bazoum.

It was unclear where Bazoum was at the time of the announcement or if he had resigned.

Mutinous soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s democratically elected president, announcing on state television late Wednesday that they have put an end to the government over the African country’s deteriorating security.

The soldiers said all institutions had been suspended and security forces were managing the situation. They urged external partners not to

“This is as a result of the continuing degradation of the security situation, the bad economic and social governance,” air force Col. Major Amadou Abdramane said on the video. Seated at a table in front of nine other officers, he said aerial and land borders were closed and a curfew was imposed until the situation stabilized. The group, which is calling itself National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, said it remained committed to its engagements with the international and national community. Source: cbc.ca

Al Jazeera slams naming of its journalists on egypt ‘terror’ list

Narendra Modi’s BJP has a clear majority in the lower house of parliament, so the vote is unlikely to affect the government’s stability. India’s parliament has authorised a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government by an alliance of opposi-

Approving the opposition motion, lower house speaker Om Birla on Wednesday said he would soon decide when the debate and vote would take place.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Fiji: 999-year lease | Government to investigate 710 acres of land deal

a 999-year lease, instead of 99 years, in 1907. The land in question is situated near Toko, towards Vatukoula. Ratu Ovini said he was at the meeting on behalf of his mataqali, as the chairman and trustee of mataqali Tilivasewa, to request that the Government shed light on the issue.

Al Jazeera Media Network denounces the Egyptian move to reinstate a number of its journalists onto a ‘terrorism’ list. Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned a decision by an Egyptian court to reinstitute several of the network’s journalists and TV presenters on its latest “terrorism” list. In a statement on Tuesday, Al Jazeera urged the Egyptian authorities to “reconsider and refrain from measures that impede journalistic work and restrict freedoms”. The network also called on the United Nations and international human rights organisations to pressure Egypt in halting the arbitrary listing of journalists and oppose such violations of rights and liberties. Egypt’s “terrorist” list operates on a roster that undergoes renewal every five years. Individuals added to the list are subjected to a travel ban, asset freeze and passport cancellation. The latest ruling was issued by the Cairo Criminal Court, and disseminated in the official alWaqai’ al-Masriya newspaper. The Network described the reinstitution of its journalists on the roster as an “unjust categorisation”,..

Source:aljazeera.com

9 people killed in a plane crash in eastern Sudan as the war reaches the 100-day mark

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has assured the people of Tavua’s mataqali Tilivasewa, that Government would look into claims their land had been leased for 999 years, one of the longest leases in Fiji’s history. Mr Rabuka made the commitment at the National Resource Owners Committee on Tuesday after Tavua District and Ba Province resource owner representative, Ratu Ovini Bokini, claimed the Tilivasewa clan was without land since 710 acres were given up on

“From 1907 until today, we have not received any money,” he said.

“I plead with the Prime Minister and other members of the 14 provinces to look into this matter because it is of great importance to the people of Tavua.”

Ratu Ovini said this parcel of land now housed more than 200 homes and the landowners wanted to know how this land was subleased, how much was involved in these transactions and who was collecting the lease payments...

Source: fijitimes.com

CAIRO - A civilian plane crashed after taking off from an airport in eastern Sudan, killing nine people, including four military personnel who were aboard the aircraft, the military said, as the conflict in the northeastern African country reached the 100-day mark on Monday with no sign of abating. The military said in a statement that a child survived late Sunday’s crash in Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea that so far has been spared from the devastating war between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The Antonov plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city’s airport, the military said. It blamed a technical failure for the crash. The statement provided no further details. Al-Taher Abdel-Rahman, the secretary of Finance Minister Gebreil Ibrahim, was among the dead, according to the minister, who took to social media to mourn his employee.

Sudan has plunged into chaos since mid-April when months-long tensions between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the country. “It’s been 100 days of war in Sudan, with a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure, but worse lies ahead,” said William Carter, Norwegian Refugee Council’s director in Sudan. The fighting has turned Khartoum and other urban areas into battlefields. The sprawling region of Darfur saw some of the worst bouts of violence in the conflict with the fighting turning into ethnic clashes. Source: ctvnews.ca/

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