Tag: canada
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Saturday Spam – Stat Canada Phone Calls – Vol 10
Last year, I around the beginning of October 2021, I started receiving calls from Stat Canada, saying they had a mandatory census to complete over the phone. I first received a call from this phone number 18664488030 stating it was statistics Canada at 8 PM PST. I found this extremely odd as I know that…
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Saturday-Spam – WSBHOT – A crypto scam – Vol 5
Well readers! I’m again switching it up and tackling a little bit of a crypto scam – Sadly one I fell for about 9 months ago. It all started when I was mining for crypto with Nice-Hash (A questionable program I’ve since uninstalled, please look into this yourself, I may cover this later but for…
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Saturday-Spam – SCAM EMAILS – PRETEND BUSINESSES – Vol 4
I’m switching gears from Spam/Scam calls, to Spam/Scam emails! Have you ever gotten an email that feels like you’ve had a conversation with someone whose name you don’t recognize, but….you don’t remember having it?? (NO NO I’m not talking about random messages you get after a night out LOL) I hope you haven’t answered them…
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Saturday-Spam – PRESS 9 to be removed from the call list – Vol 3
The last two weeks, we covered how scammers call pretending to be government officials in an effort to get your information, then we covered how scammers spoof using other people’s numbers to scam you. (Once again – DO NOT CALL THESE BACK ON YOUR PHONE! If you are curious, PLEASE use an internet phone that…
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Saturday-Spam – Caller ID Spoofing – Vol 2
Last week, we covered how scammers call pretending to be government officials in an effort to get your information. I also stated that these numbers came from 1-800 numbers as well as regular area codes, which if called back were either out of service or confused people! (Once again – DO NOT CALL THESE BACK…
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Tuesday Tips – Vol 1
Well – I meant to post this way earlier this morning but the day completely got carried away! (Ethan and I start a new job tomorrow as a Set Decorator and we had to make sure our ducks were in a row!) That being said….I ran across a cool tip today whilst running some errands…
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Saturday-Spam – Vol 1
I’m starting a new series to be posted on Saturdays, explaining any new Spams/Scams I’ve come across! If you have any information regarding Spams/Scams and would like to have it appear here, please send me that information and advise what social profile you’d like linked, your name, or if you wish to stay anonymous! I’ve…
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Sovereign by Design – SCAM
I’ve run across a scam due to a dear friend of mine being sucked into this, first bringing it to my attention by asking me if I knew that I had money attached to my name at birth, and did I know that I was paying for stuff twice as the government had given me…
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Be Sure to Verify Direct Deposit Info With CRA
It’s Tax Time! – Be sure to update/verify your direct deposit info! What happens if it’s not correct? Well it will try to deposit into your old account, then once it bounces back, the CRA will wipe your old Direct Deposit info from the their website, however, there is no indication from the CRA that…
