Received a call from this number just now. He said, he was calling from RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and he is having warrant on me.
Please forward this to any concerned persons, to take action on them and avoid un necessary tension to public.
same problem....we got a call on immigration with all kinds of threat that he will let police know .....etc.
We are seniors after 40+ years of service in this country.....shocking to see how and what tricks people use to scare descent Canadians.
Please watch out !
Caller mentioned also with a thick indian accent that there was a complaint from immigration services. I directly started laughing and told him to call the police and send them
I got this call two hours back, I was so scared and gave my phone number (mobile & home), home address to that person. They asked me to send the money $1600 within 45 minutes through money gram service and insisted to keep it secret and not to tell even to my husband or else he will also be in trouble and get arrested. I did not know what to do and spoke to my husband, he said it should be a scam and found that yes it is a scam from this website. I am worried because I have given my home address. But I do not understand how they got my phone number and full name. All please be aware.
Quote:I do not understand how they got my phone number and full name.
If you ever posted your name & phone number on a social site, or entered that info when ordering online, or otherwise typed it in an insecure computer, or gave it to a friend whose computer was attacked, or filled out an entry form at a fair or a supermarket, or used it on a contest entry form, or were among those whose information was hacked from some organization, or obtained a "new" phone number ... your name & number are probably known to the scammers.
There is also another, very sneaky way.
Does your phone have Caller ID + Caller Name display (CNAM)? If so, you have noted that it usually displays BOTH the phone number and the name of the person calling you. Some scammers take advantage of that, by getting a phone with a CNAM display, and then using a computer program to repeatedly call it, from a computer-driven war dialer. The computer program generates the calling number, and changes the calling number for each call. If the generated number was yours, your name (as well as your number) will appear on their "test" phone, because that name is supplied by the telephone company.
The result is, the receiving phone "sees" both the calling number and the name of the person who is registered with that number! The scammer harvests the name & number data, and sells it to other scammers.
Thanks... it did help. I found that they would have got the number from telephone directory, since it is not set as private. Now we have set it as private and would advise the same for others as well.