Calling transfer returns true but doesn't perform the transfer

Question

I have the following simple transfer method in my contract to transfer my erc20 token to another account:

function transfer(address to, uint tokens) public returns (bool success) {
    balances[msg.sender] = safeSub(balances[msg.sender], tokens);
    balances[to] = safeAdd(balances[to], tokens);
    Transfer(msg.sender, to, tokens);
    return true;
}

When I call this from angular through web3 doing the following it returns true as the result but nothing seems to be updated on the ropsten network. Is there anything that im missing here.

 tokenContract.transfer.call(_transferTo, window.web3.toWei(_amount),{ from: _transferFrom }, function(err, status){                                
    if(status) {
      return resolve({status:true});
    }      
});

Answer 1

Web3's call is for making read-only calls to your local node.

Try:

tokenContract.transfer(_transferTo...