Officer Ryan Smith from CRA with a strong foreign accent left me a message on my answering machine to call immediately or to get my Lawyer to call him back!!! Ha, ha what a joke!   If you get a similar call just hang up or erase the message like I did

A threatening call from someone claiming to be a Canada Revenue officer named Ryan Smith. His English is horrible. Strong foreign accent. Block this number for sure.

I received the same all today, the caller didn't even mention the name of the person who he is calling. It is just rediculuos that he thought he can fool anyone..

Like the others, I received the same message this morning. "Officer Ryan Smith", with a heavy ?Pakistan? accent roto-called me, informing me that he was from Canada Revenue and that I had committed a "major fraud" on my taxes. Either my lawyer or myself was to call him back immediately. Since I haven't even done my taxes yet, I don't know what he'd have to say to my lawyer. And it would have been my lawyer.

Officer Ryan Smith from Revenue Canada also was kind enough to inform me that there is a potential fraud with my tax paper and that either myself or my lawyer should not disregard this message and call him back at his direct line (613) 604-9938 as soon as possible =)

So I saved the message and played it back for all my friends for a good laugh - have the scammers really gotten this lazy that they couldn't even bother to at least customize the scam to make it sound even remotely legitimate?  Tsk tsk there's just no art and honour in this business anymore...

Saved the number and plan to call "Ryan" back later this week when I'm bored at work or had a bad meeting and needs a pick-me-up...