Got a call from 1-613-912-8262. A lady spoke to my wife claiming to be from “Royal Canadian Mounted Police” RCMP’s Revenue Canada department. She mentioned there were arrest warrants against me for unpaid taxes etc and asked that I call them back ASAP. I called back the number and several times got a recorded message in a man’s voice with foreign accent and claiming to be from “Royal Canadian Mounted Police” RCMP’s Revenue Canada department. Their mailbox was full, so could not leave a message.
After several tries, I finally got hold of someone, again this guy was clamming to be from RCMP and said he has charges against me from Canada Revenue Agency and has an arrest warrant for me but just wanted to talk to me last time before sending over the cops to my door to arrest me. I started questioning if this guy was really who he was claiming to be and he said I can hang up and he can call me back from a number that I will recognize and prove his identity. In few seconds, sure enough I got a call from “911”. I new right away this guy was fraud at this point as he was spoofing caller id as calls can’t be made from 911 number. So he spoke to me for few seconds from “911” and then said he has to call me from other number as that line is monitored and he must speak to me on other line as conversation will be recorded and 3 other authorized attendants will be listing in as witnesses. The guy kept threating me that if I don’t believe him, I can hang up and he will have cops knocking at my door in 35 minutes. To cut the long story short, I finally asked him to send cops and hung up.
I then looked up the official number of RCMP from http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/index-eng.htm and called their Ontario office. The officer I spoke to asked me for the phone number I was getting the calls from, put me on hold for few seconds and call that number and sure enough came back after few seconds and told me it was a fraudulent number. He said the guy on the other end did not even pronounce the name of agency correctly and asked me to report this incident to “Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre” at 888-495-8501 and if necessary to my local police office as well. I called Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and spoke to a kind lady who listened to my concerns and told me this scam started around March 2014 and perpetrators appear to be calling from India and targeting recent immigrants east India and scaring them to pay these guys off. Please spread the word to your friends and loved ones to make sure no one falls into this scam.
I got a call this morning claming to be from RCMP and they basically the same things mentioned in the post by Rasid. They asked about where I am from etc, I refused to give any information. i told them I will contact CRA and RCMP directly to get the details. The man on the line was trying to sound tough but I cut him short by hanging up.
I received a call from this number claiming to be from RCMP. They mentioned that there is a fraud case issued by CRA and they are handling it now. When I said that there is no communication from CRA regarding this, he claimed that CRA never calls you regarding the cases. he asked about my details which I declined to give and hung up saying i will contact CRA myself directly.