If the price is too good to be true, it probably is.

Peel Regional Police are warning area residents to be wary of an advanced-fee airline ticket scam that has ruined the trip of many.

Detectives have arrested a Brampton woman after a number of people were ripped off.

Police say between 2018 and 2019, the woman purported to be an Air Canada employee, who was allegedly offering cheap airline tickets for sale on a Kijiji website and communicated with victims via WhatsApp.

Officers allege the suspect never met the victims in person.

They claim the victims purchased the tickets from the woman and made payments to her.

When the victims arrived at the airport, all packed on the day of their flights, they discovered the tickets  had been cancelled.

What a heartbreaker.

Investigators say more than $35,400 has been defrauded from victims and that they believe there are others out there who were also scammed.

Amarjeet Kaur Saini, 41, was arrested on October 15 and charged with defraud the public.

She was released with conditions and will return on December 21 to the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton.