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Optik TV Added After Suspicious Call; Legit?
I'm very confused right now. Today, I received a call from 833-390-3721, claiming to be a representative from Telus. Because I had only switched to Telus a month ago, I thought they were calling to a...
BrandonT,
Cell providers need to stop asking our clients for their SIN. As a PS we will send our Investigators over to your place of business to tell you to stop. Once this happens your company is placed on our internal Federal list of private business who are contributing to fraud by asking this.
Telus, Bell, Rogers, etc have all gotten in trouble for this poor practice more than once. Stop bullying our clients just so you can make a sale. Our clients have come back to us saying the sales person is denying them a cell phone if they don't provide it. This is what is causing our Investigators to visit your businesses.
SINs are never to be used as ID for any private sector businesses ever. Stop asking our clients to assume that risk. There are other forms of IDs that can be used without exposing the privacy of our clients SIN.
We do tell our clients to never provide thier SIN to any cell phone services no matter how pushy cellular sales people can be.
I will be forwarding this email with your information up to our Integrity Directors to deal with Telus bad practices.
Cell providers need to stop asking our clients for their SIN. As a PS we will send our Investigators over to your place of business to tell you to stop. Once this happens your company is placed on our internal Federal list of private business who are contributing to fraud by asking this.
Telus, Bell, Rogers, etc have all gotten in trouble for this poor practice more than once. Stop bullying our clients just so you can make a sale. Our clients have come back to us saying the sales person is denying them a cell phone if they don't provide it. This is what is causing our Investigators to visit your businesses.
SINs are never to be used as ID for any private sector businesses ever. Stop asking our clients to assume that risk. There are other forms of IDs that can be used without exposing the privacy of our clients SIN.
We do tell our clients to never provide thier SIN to any cell phone services no matter how pushy cellular sales people can be.
I will be forwarding this email with your information up to our Integrity Directors to deal with Telus bad practices.
And Passport Numbers.
