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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Not a shit lot, I'd say. Can't charge him with exortion in another country AFAIK.
Earlier today we had a east indian-sounding guy call our house claiming to be with the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) - and saying we owe outstanding taxes and he'd put a "lien on your taxes and send out an arrest warrant on us."
I suspected the asshole was a scammer as soon as I heard the voice, but then confirmed when he started issuing threats. I don't owe any taxes, anyways. But the guy initially sounded convincing - since we DO have a lot of east indian/punjab types working for the CRA here in Canada.
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I had a similar one of those a little while back. Indian sounding guy telling me he was a federal investigator and that I was about to arrested for wire fraud, misappropriation of funds, and a variety of other charges. When I told him the problem in his scam was that i hadn't done this he tried to convince me that it didn't matter, they were going to arrest me anyway, but magically, for a fee, he could make it all go away.
When I was getting ready to hang up on him he yelled in a very high pitched voice, "If you hang up you will be arrested!" I laughed for five minutes over how it sounded.