This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Police have charged a husband and wife from Brampton, Ont., with fraud, money laundering and property offences in connection with a global telemarketing scam in which victims are threatened with immediate arrest by the Canada Revenue Agency unless they pay up.
Here’s how the scam works: First, a person in an English-speaking country receives an alarming phone call in which an automated voice claims to speak for the national tax agency and threatens the victim with arrest unless an outstanding tax bill is paid. “RCMP investigators have uncovered money ‘mules,’ or money mule managers, operating in Canada who assist with laundering of funds obtained through the CRA scam and other scams,” RCMP Inspector Jim Ogden told reporters.
“They usually target the English-speaking countries – Britain, Australia, New Zealand, North America,” said RCMP Corporal Sam Ismail at Friday’s press conference.
Scam done by scum. If some victims could have only 5 minutes with them in a closed space. That would be the true justice. BTW I got the call and it threw me of badly, but did not become a victim. Do not trust any call from far east ote anywhere else but Canada. Accent tells it
Indian immigrants....of course
This is reportedly the couple
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