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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.
Good that you weren't fooled. The sad reality is these scammers must be fooling enough people to make it worth the effort.
You didn't need to print the email and take it to a Telus store to know it was a scam. Look at the email header information and I'll bet the reply-to, mailed-by and signed-by are not telus.com. Ignore the from info as that can be spoofed. Legit email from Telus has header info like this.
