Someone is calling me from this number and identifying himself as an officer. I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know, so a voice mail was left. This time he said that he is sending someone to arrest me. I am supposed to call back if I don't want to be arrested!
Exactly like the previous comment. I was at work and this guy with a heavy African accent left a message saying I need to call back or someone will be sent over to arrest me. He ended the call by saying God bless...
Someone (old mail voice) called me on 11:29 AM (Central time) today from this number pretending to be Canada Revenue Agency, informed me that CRA is filing a case against me (as he said, this is what CRA is doing for the purpose of random audit), and asked whether I have a lawyer.
The caller also "informed" me that a CRA officer will visit my house within 45 minutes :)))
In the middle of our conversation he hung up, but I got his number shown up on the caller ID feature of my landline phone, so I called him back to continue the conversation. This way the number is confirmed to really belong to this fraudster, rather than just to be a fake caller ID. We continued the conversation, and during the second part he said enough for me to become certain that he is the same person who called me in. During the first (incoming) call he only used my last name, and when I called back he knew my first name too, and he continued with the same topic while I only told him as little as my last name, so it is certainly the same person who called me in.
I once had real CRA auditing my income tax file. The real CRA at the time made no incoming calls and sent nobody to my house, they mailed me a letter and invited me to visit their office in the downtown Winnipeg.
As soon as I told the fraudster about that past experience, he hung up on me again.
Needless to say, nobody attempted to come to my house within 45 minutes. I would call police to seize them if they do, because it is obviously a fraud.
If anyone like that attempts to call you in any similar way, I suggest you should treat them as very suspicious strangers attempting to enter your premises, rather than real CRA. Don't let them into your house, don't open a door to them. If you decide to let them in, make sure to have police in your house before they arrive, for the police to seize them. You quite may be facing a risk of physical assault.
Received at call from 289-271- 4977 this afternoon. They are sending an officer to arrest me because there is a warrant for my arrest, This is an Ontario number and I believe a fraud. I would like the police to investigate and charge these people who fraud.
I received a call from 705=530-0241 on October 19th saying they were from CRA and are using time sensitve material and investigating my file.
They are the same people I believe.
Appreciate these fraudsters are busted and made to pay the penalties provided by law.
I work out and my family is really concerned because of their safety.
Same here someone this morning left a message on my generic answering machine claiming to be Officer Peter Sampson (had a bit of an African accent) from Revenue Canada. He was about to file a lawsuit in my name and have me arrested if I did not call him back immediately. Clearly a scam as I'm assuming if a lawsuit is about to be filed against me (and have me arrested) the Government of Canada is not going to call and threaten me with a timeline to call back. I'm really not that important to deserve a warning they are simply going to arrest me.