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Offline Michael Hardner

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Scam Calls
« on: March 03, 2018, 11:30:25 am »
http://www.reportthecall.com/613-701-1711

613 701 1711
613-701-1711
(613) 701 1711

They keep phoning me and saying it's a legal matter.

Should I worry ?

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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2018, 11:39:24 am »
Scams are a constant. I got a call last year from someone purported to be from CRA. I didn't answer but the message left warned me that I was in legal trouble and I had better call back soon, and that I could be prosecuted and was under surveillance. All bullshit, of course. Even if I hadn't worked for CRA and didn't know what they do and do not do I'd have recognized that.

Lately what I get are 'urgent' texts warning me that my bank account is in trouble. I've gotten these from BMO, Scotia, and RBC. They all have some variation of a warning that my account has been 'restricted' or 'compromised' or that there's been some sort of suspicious activity. And would I kindly click on the link and take care of the issue. Got one from Bell telling me they had mistakenly overcharged me and all I had to do was click on the link to get my funds back. They often have small, but telling spelling mistakes, indicating they're likely coming from non-English speakers. It's now a ubiquitous part of our electronic life.

The sad part is the people most likely to fall for these things are the people who can least afford to lose the money it will cost them.
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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2018, 12:48:09 pm »

They keep phoning me and saying it's a legal matter.

Should I worry ?

Yes.

Give the your Visa # so they can resolve the matter.
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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2018, 01:37:01 pm »
I am currently awaiting arrest as per the warrant that's been issued, according to a phone message I got last week.

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2018, 01:47:44 pm »
I am currently awaiting arrest as per the warrant that's been issued, according to a phone message I got last week.

Is that one of the phony CRA scams?

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2018, 02:00:50 pm »
Is that one of the phony CRA scams?

I believe so.  Part of the message was lost; I only got the part about an arrest warrant issued in my name so I should call right away.  I admit, I was briefly taken aback. 

Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2018, 02:11:44 pm »
Yes.

Give the your Visa # so they can resolve the matter.

I don't know.  What if it's a scam ?  Seems risky.

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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2018, 02:26:11 pm »
I believe so.  Part of the message was lost; I only got the part about an arrest warrant issued in my name so I should call right away.  I admit, I was briefly taken aback.

I'm sure you were. I never got one of those but I was prepared since a good friend of mine worked for CRA and he told me when these things began to appear to ignore it if it does happen because we never do that. I did have to live through another type fo scam that was a nightmare for awhile. I opened my Visa bill one day some years ago and as I went down the list everything was in order untill I cam to an item-$1100 for an airplane ticket purched for a flight from Salt Lake City Utah to somewhere, I forget now and return. I have never been in Salt Lake in my life, had never lost control of the card, never bought anything online or over the phone. So I phoned the 800 # to report such things and the lady there told me to ask for a paper copy of this transaction, which I did, and received nothing. I paid the valid charges minus the 1100 until I finally got a call from a collection agency, to whom I reported the details and they said they were going to send the file back. More time went by and I got a call from a different agency threatening me they would phone my employer if I didn't pay up immediately. Luckily I knew enough about Canadian law to tell that agent to copy down this Vancouver phone number of my head office and when I hear you've called, I will sue your ass off. The turmoil swirled and finally I got a call telling me this issue was timed out, any black market on my credit rating was erased, and I got a new Visa card in the mail. I've always wondered just how that all came to pass.

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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2018, 03:09:24 pm »
I opened my Visa bill one day some years ago

Over the years, I have only had two disputes with credit card charges.
  • The first was was with American Express, and their help line was 100% useless but the lady had the audacity to say how great American Express was because they were listening to me although they did nothing. I made a quick call to the hotel that made the charge, and they reversed it immediately. I returned my American Express card and have never used them again.
  • The other one was with MasterCard a few years later. They looked at the charge and said they would follow up. I got a call back the next day saying the charges were reversed.
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Re: Scam Calls
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2018, 03:37:27 pm »
Over the years, I have only had two disputes with credit card charges.
  • The first was was with American Express, and their help line was 100% useless but the lady had the audacity to say how great American Express was because they were listening to me although they did nothing. I made a quick call to the hotel that made the charge, and they reversed it immediately. I returned my American Express card and have never used them again.
    The other one was with MasterCard a few years later. They looked at the charge and said they would follow up. I got a call back the next day saying the charges were reversed.

It was amazing how things changed between my horror show and the next time someone was faced with the same thing. some years after my episode I was sitting in a bar in Haiti with a few colleagues, one of whom was leaving in the am for time off. we had established a protocol that whoever was in that position bought the first round and then they could bugger off to bed since the flight left quite early. I was speaking with him on the phone a week later after I bought my first round and got home. He told me quite a story about opening his bill and seeing somewhere in the neighborhood of 22K (I repeat 22K) on that bill. He said when he got his chin back up off the floor he got on the phone. One of the first questions he was asked was to identify the last card use he claimed responsibility for. He said that was easy because the last time he had used it was paying for that first round down south. Everything after that was removed. He said the first bogus charge  on his bill was a purchase in Miami before he had even left PaP. The only thing that we could come up with was back in those days your card went through that "cha ching" machine and people could pull the carbons out and have your name and card number.