I called back one guy picked up the phone and he said is Canada Revenue Agency, unbelievable they are continuing to tells lies to the people and nobody is doing anything by the law.
My phone system cut this call off, meaning its a VoIP auto-dialer (dialed by computer). I know this is not a valid number for this area code, so it is spoofed/faked number (not in the Canada 411 phone directories). www.safecaller.com (not familiar with the site) has several postings indicating this is not a Safe Call, and some say its the 'Tax Scam' call - claiming to be from the federal government saying your taxes are overdue (you can pay by credit card) and saying they will do all kinds of things like 'come after you', 'send police', garnishee wages - all bogus. NO Federal Tax department would behave this way! It was on CBC News last night, this is an offshore call centre (not in North American) and definately a fraud/scam attempt. Such scammers are trying to get either money (credit card) or Identifying Information, usually both - used to create Fake IDs and commit fraud, or fund criminal organizations. The Call Centre itself MIGHT be legit, and if so the staff are paid to say whatever their clients want them to - but many organized crime groups have set up their own, using computers (like the Nigeria scammers). Do not talk or engage, just hang up - and warn your aging parents not to believe any such calls (it isn't rude to hang up on crooks!). When scammers get a 'live' call answer, the computer notes that it is a valid number and you get more calls/scam attempts! And they sell/share/rent their databases. A give-away is the 'dead air' for the few seconds between answering and when the computer connects the call to an agent; if you hang up before that happens, the computers think its no longer a valid number.
I called back one guy picked up the phone and he said is Canada Revenue Agency, unbelievable they are continuing to tells lies to the people and nobody is doing anything by the law.
Update - the fool got engaged with a call yesterday, gave away how he does the 'Canada Revenue - Taxes Owing' scams to someone who has recorded the call plus contacted the cops and the media. He says he is in North Carolina, and re-routes his VoIP connection through various servers to different countries to evade Federal laws. He said if only 1-2% of the calls are successful, he can make as much as $50k in a single MONTH and the auto-dialer dials hundreds of numbers per hour; he just waits until he connects with one. He SAYS he doesn't scam poor people, but the truth is anyone that believes him is a 'mark'. He makes his living and 's just out to get rich by scamming other people, especially gullible seniors. They broadcast part of the message - his accent is not of North Carolina; sound like non-North American to me. This Sociopath should be shipped back to wherever he came from and serve a nice long prison sentence in whatever country that is, because ours are too good for the likes of him!
got a call from this number. Left a "voice" recorded message saying that they tried to reach me by email and they didn't hear from me.. said this is Time sensitive, so don't ignore this message. I KNOW its the revenue scammer people as people have indicated, as i have gotten several calls from them.. they changed their numbers as well. people DON"T FALL FOR THIS!!! REVENUE CANADA WILL NEVER CALL YOU ABOUT YOUR TAXES AND/OR ASK YOU ABOUT PERSONAL INFO ON THE PHONE ETC. I feel sorry for the seniors who will believe this.