15-05-2018 15:20 via ottawacitizen.com

Fraudsters 'spoof' RCMP's phone number in tax scam

The RCMP isn’t making calls claiming taxpayers owe big and will be under arrest if they don’t pay up via money transfer, the force is warning.
It’s a scam and the calls, in which fraudsters impersonate police officers, are using caller ID spoofing to make it look like they coming from the Mounties/
The callers tell their marks that there is a large amount of money owing on their personal taxes and that an arrest warrant has been issued in their name. The only way to m
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