Grant Gilmour

Are the aggressive collection calls you have been getting from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) real? The short answer is NO. The calls are a scam. Please read on.

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Criminals are utilizing their Internet connection to file false tax returns that help them steal refunds from the innocent. In 2013, fraudulent returns saw almost $4 billion sent into the hands of scam artists. Making things worse is the fact that the Internal Revenue Service is having a hard time stopping the fraud from happening in the first place.

The United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, says that 880 people have been charged to date, but also says that the scale and scope of the tax fraud schemes has grown substantially. Holder has been a victim of tax fraud himself. Two Georgia men recently plead guilty to charges stemming from their attempt to get a refund by using Holder’s name, Social Security number and date of birth on returns. Read More

Was it Oscar Wilde who said, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”? Poor Oscar lived during those simple times, when identities actually represented a person’s personality & all of it’s unique traits.

The world has come a long, long way since, your identity is now associated with everything you touch, from something as simple as your email account or other social media to your Social Security Number, bank accounts, credit cards etc. As we enter the maze of the digital world, we have to beware of the dragon that is the identity thief!

I had a close encounter with identity theft when a client’s e-file was rejected with a unique Read More