I received my second call today Saturday Oct 10;
Call 1: ( several weeks ago) I picked up, very rude man's voice telling me he was putting me through to his supervisor, I was left on hold for a few minutes, the "supervisor" was extremely rude and intimidating, however when I challenged and indicated the call had not come up as a "Government of Canada" number and I assumed it was a scam he hung up. When I tried to call that number ( I don't remember it now) it was not in service.
Call 2: I just missed a call today from 1-613-704-2170 so not knowing who it was I called back. He identified himself as Officer Kevin Blake from Canada Revenue Service and quickly rattled off a badge number. He indicated there was a legal case against me. He knew my first and last name and address and was about to read out the 'legal charges'; again when I challenged him that the number had not come up as a "Government of Canada" and I was not going to listen to any "charges" he hung up. On reflection it is unlikely one would get a call from CRA on a Saturday and certainly our CRA employees are much more polite! Both calls were disturbing despite the rational part of me knowing it was likely a scam. In other circumstances if I was not fluent in English or perhaps new to Canada and unaware of some of the red flags (no phone ID, rude behaviour, threatening me with legal etc.) I may have fallen for the scam and given out valuable information.
I will report this to the RCMP anti fraud on Tuesday by phone.
Received call for the number 613 704 2170, claiming to be revenue canada, recording was a woman voice poor quality static, requesting for me to call back the number immediately or legal procedures would be taken against me.
They call threatening that the RCMP will be dispatched to arrest you for years of unpaid income taxes which have recently been uncovered through a 5 year audit of your tax records. The amount ranging in the thousands of dollars. They will attempt to obtain banking or credit card information in the process.This is a scam.
I just had the exact same thing happen to me... he gave me a CRM# said that I owed about $3000.00 and that if I hung up that he was sending the police to arrest me. This is ridiculous... He actually was yelling at me on the phone saying that I shouldn't hang up on him or have to suffer the consequences.
Received a phone call with a threatening message today from a women (with bad static on the line) who identified herself as a Canada Revenue Agency telling me there was a problem with my income tax and legal charges were pending and that I had to phone back about it, so I called back and was then verbally abused by a man who treated me and told me he was forwarding the papers to the RCMP and they would arrest me within the hour. So I first went on facebook to see if anyone else had received this call, and several have in the Glace Bay area, one friend told me that there are warnings out about this scam, I then phone Revenue Canada and they are aware of the scam , they told me to report it to Anti-Fraud Center online so I went to the webpage, and I failed to understand how to report this phone call there, and really didn't understand using my banking access there to report something ( which of course people who are being scammed are not apt to do) anyway, I found this site on facebook and decided to report it here. The phone number is 1 613 704 2170