I received a call on my answering machine yesterday (June 6/16) from this number (location: Canada, Ontario, Sudbury). The message supposedly was from the Headquarters and the Attorney General's Office of the Revenue Canada Agency saying “There is a lawsuit filed against your name (no name given) and an arrest warrant is on activation mode in your name (again no name given) and the police will be attending your residence with the warrant if a call is not received from you.” (It is a woman's computer generated voice.) I have completely ignored the message left this time on my answering machine because: a) no name is given as to who the call is for; b) number given is NOT a CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) number; AND -- c) this is the second time they have tried to pull this on me – the first time I was hysterical! Called them back - ended up in tears from their treatment of me during the call; and the following day, I got on the phone to our family lawyer - he told me this is a current scam - usually targeting seniors (I'm 80ish) and after he checked with CRA on my behalf, he assured me that I was not, and have not been, in default or arrears, or under investigation by CRA at any time, according to their records on me. So knowing what my lawyer found out only a few months ago, I just laughed at the message - and deleted it.
I would respectfully suggest to anyone else receiving this message, or one similar, to just ignore it - or call the CRA number - I won't give it - you can look it up in the blue pages under Canada Revenue Agency, personal income taxes (it ends in 8281) - or call the Canadian Anti-Fraud Squad number (1-888-495-8501)(the CRA number is also available here) - and where this is listed on the Fraud Squad’s main menu (item # 6) and is worth a listen, or google and visit their web-site (Home - Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/index-eng.htm -- The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) is the central agency in Canada that collects information and criminal intelligence on such matters as mass marketing ...) and file (as I did) an information with them that will be shared with various police and other enforcement agencies. Please - do not get yourself as upset as I did with the original call - if we all provide information to the Anti-Fraud Centre - the people attempting this scam will be dealt with in a much better way than any of us could even consider on our own - let's get these guy (or gals) legally!
NOTE: I WAS NOT ABLE TO LIST THIS CALL AS A SCAM ... BUT THE CRA AND THE ANTI-FRAUD CENTRE SAY IT IS.
They said it was Revenue Canada reguarding an audit. They had tried to reach ne by mail but got no response. I did not receive anything from Revenue Canada aboutva audit. They said do not try bto disregard this message as it is time sensitive. Friday June 3rd.