Government E mail address book hi-jacked?
Well I get at least 1 scam a day in my telus inbox, most likely because my address is public on my web site. I was about to mark this one as spam but out of curiosity I right clicked the sender and saw that it actually came from Revenue Canada? I double checked and this was accurate.
It told me I have a extra refund coming and to click the link to claim my " 733,17$. "
- notice the comma and the dollar sign placement. The provided link is obviously a phishing site, Google Chrome confirmed this when I clicked the link. So it would seem that someone has managed to hijack the Revenue Canada's e mail address book, I'm on file and this is the e mail address I used for E file.
So I figured I should report this as it might even be a national security issue, right?
I Googled "reporting fraud" and the top of the list was RCMP. But their web site claimed they don't want to hear from me unless I'm an actual victim. I guess I'm not. So there is a link to the Government "Anti Fraud Agency" , looking good. They have a list of currant fraud scams but I didn't see this one. I clicked the report fraud link thinking this was the way to pass on what might be important info.
I have to log on? ! I had to fill in a page and a half of personal info? OK I'm game. I finally get to a page to report the fraud and it looks amazingly like the unEmployment Insurance claim reporting site! Cool. But it was page after page of stupid questions and none of the choices matched my issue. I gave up after 12 minutes.
But when I returned to my in box I had a email from an IT friend warning about the Heartbleed bug. So I guess they already were aware they have been hacked big time. This will be an interesting development. I think the OP was just joking.. if you read the link you'll see how not all secure site software is compromised, only 2/3 of the sites.
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/heartbleed-web-security-bug-what-you-need-to-know