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A 28-year-old man allegedly known online by the name “Ace” — among numerous other aliases — has been served up a slew of charges for allegedly selling fake event tickets and posting phony apartment rental ads.

Toronto Police said a man posted event tickets for sale on a website.

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“He would meet unsuspecting victims in person and received payment in exchange for event tickets,” Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook alleged Thursday, explaining victims later learned the tickets were counterfeit.

“It is further alleged that the same man also posted short-term rental apartments for lease,” she added. “These were also later determined to be fraudulent.”

Douglas-Cook said the man also allegedly used an online dating site to meet a woman who later accepted electronic money transfers from buyers for him.

Asa Ayed Numan, of Toronto, is charged with 11 counts of fraud under $5,000, two counts of uttering forged documents and two counts of possession of property obtained by crime.

The accused also allegedly used the aliases Boris Abramovic, Alexander Adler, Yacoub Arizoni and Sean Gregory.

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