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Phone scam about new plan
Got a call from a non-native-English-speaking person claiming to be from Telus and offering me a new phone plan that is cheaper than my current land-line plan, similar to the Home Phone Lite plan. He...
Swany Good catch. It's definitely not legit and we've flagged it to our internal fraud team. On your end, please check out this link for the Canada Anti-fraud centre and report the scam.
This scam is still active, got a call from 'Roy Alex' and offered reduction on my Telus landline costs. When he wanted my birthdate to confirm accepting the plan it just seemed too weird and I asked for more details. He had a really crappy line, kept cutting out, I told him having a lousy phoneline from a supposed phone company wasn't very comforting ! Eventually gave up ...
We are still getting the scam calls a couple of times a week. At least we know now to just hang up.
