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Re:US breaks up IRS phone scam operation by Scoundreller on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:44AM (#17598394)
Canadian here. The CRA has called me about their criminal warrants for my arrest many times. The Chinese consulate keeps telling me to call them back.

But these are all on my work-phone and government agencies don't pay taxes anyway.

My personal phone has been relatively safe for unknown reasons that I'm happy about.

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Re:US breaks up IRS phone scam operation by joecool1029 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:35AM (#17598608)
Not canadian but used to travel there a lot and had a nice collection of prepaid sim cards. Every new prepaid line I registered got tons of calls from debt collectors, to telemarketers, to scammers.

So yeah it happens, though probably less blindly than US and more from information sharing.

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