I called back from the office to protect my identity. They threatened the Mounties would be at my door in 45 minutes... They never came I agree real correspondence comes by mail.
I got a call from this number too - but the strange thing is, I live in Alberta. I couldn't understand the start of the message because it started while the answering machine was saying, "Please leave a message after the tone." In itself, that makes me think the message is just a recording, not an actual person speaking.
It claimed that there was an urgent business matter that had to be taken care of, and this person said he required either me or an attorney to contact him as soon as I received the phone call. Then it said, "If you ignore this message and do not contact me, I can only wish you good luck as the legal situation continues to get worse."
Last time I checked, "urgent business matters" are taken care of by correspondence, not phone calls. And now that I know I'm not the only one to receive a call like this, I'm going to disregard it.
It's a scam, and a pretty poor one at that. Don't call back, the last thing you want is for these people to get any information about you.
If you are worried that it might be real, and are considering calling back "just in case" it's authentic, call Canada Revenue directly (they're in the phone book). They'll ask you for the account number and what the legal action is - which would have been mentioned in any legitimate message from them - and then tell you that it's a scam, and not to call back.
I received the same message and also from Alberta. It also started speaking while our voicemail recording was on and the first part was not available. Said his name was officer John Parker but didn't exactly sound like a "John Parker".......either that or John was raised in India. 289.802.1631
I just got the same call. A scam, or an awful lot of us are in some kind of legal trouble. I suspect the former as most CRA reps speak clear English, sans a foreign accent.