Telephone Scammers: Phone Scam and Police Const

telephone scammers: RCMP warn of phone scam targeting and threatening immigrantsCRA phone scam revs up as fraudsters start calling cellphones That call was followed up by a call from another person claiming to be a Halifax police officer who advised the victim to send the money or be arrested, according to CBC. Const. Halifax Regional Police said Thursday they received a report from a 23-year-old man who said he was contacted by an alleged Immigration Canada employee about a complaint against him and that he needed legal representation costing hundreds of dollars. Diane Penfound said telephone scammers are using threats of arrest to try and bilk victims out of large sums of money. It was thousands, said Halifax Regional Police Const. CBC Basically said he was in trouble and said the trouble would be rectified if he handed money, which he did, and then called us. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.