The federal force is also working in concert with its partners in the Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing network that includes Canada, the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand.įurther technical assistance has come from Microsoft, which operates a large cybercrime laboratory at a high-security facility in Washington State. So we're doing whatever we can to stop it." Follow the money "It's something that certainly every investigator on project Octavia has taken personally. "I do think we're making a dent," Ogden says. Marketplace As RCMP raids target India over CRA phone scam, possible Canadian collaborators have reason to be nervous WATCH - 'Joe' describes the impact of losing more than $36,000 to the CRA tax scam: Victims are often elderly or new Canadians who don't realize that federal tax authorities would never demand payment unsolicited by phone, or ask them to pay in difficult-to-trace Bitcoin or retail gift cards. But in some cases those victims hand over life savings and even draw on lines of credit. Most who get the call identify it as fraud, and only a slim minority report being victimized, according to authorities. More than 60,000 Canadians have complained of being contacted.
The crime, often referred to as "the CRA phone scam," is well known to most Canadians: harassing phone calls claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency, insisting the recipient owes taxes and must pay immediately or face arrest, imprisonment, and salary garnishment.
"Leads that we're following up on, and that when we get enough evidence, then we will charge and prosecute these individuals." Jim Ogden told CBC's Marketplace in an exclusive interview. Yet inside, 12 RCMP investigators have been tracking a scam that originates overseas, has taken aim at tens of thousands of Canadians, and now appears to have Canadian accomplices ferrying the proceeds of the crime to bosses in India. From the outside, the low-rise office building west of Toronto's Pearson Airport hardly looks like the hub of a federal investigation.
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