They also contracted to a company in Victoria who does Government Research on Food Banks, they have someone inside passing any relevant information on. Another tactic is to phone pretending to be Microsoft and telling you that there is a problem with your Windows Software, they then try and convince you to give access to your computer and lock it holding it hostage until you pay them. Don't think they use this one anymore though as it is criminal and usually doesn't work, read a few people got stung. More proof linux is better anyway.

I got called from this unknown number many times...this is part of spam and I called back saying voicemail is full.....wasting my time!

Very rude lady named Laura, calls saying my son owes money from years ago.....I give her my son's number and she gets very annoyed.  If I hang up, she calls back till I pick up.  Very harassing person.  Anyone know how to stop these early morning calls?

Tell them to take you to court and produce the paperwork or you will pursue harassment charges. If your debt is 15 years old, chances are there will be no paperwork and it is a written off debt by the original creditor. A judge will laugh at them and tell them to get the hell out of his court and stop wasting his time.

I am getting calls 2-3 times a week at my work from (780) 328-6135. I know they are calling regarding an OLD Canadian Tire MasterCard from 16yrs ago. Since then I have bought a house/car and good credit. Plus it doesn't even show up on my credit bureau. Honestly I have no intentions of paying them. Does anyone know how to get them to stop calling my work?

Good thing i didn't answer! I didn't recognize the number and i don't have long distance calls. Lol this kind of calls should stop, waste of time and waste of money for people who get charged for long distance calls.

I got the same, yesterday a other 780 called these claim there were from Canadian Tire Option master card, I hang up well i dont have any credit card at all. Today (780) 328-6135 called it was just a machine telling me i will receive a letter witt a reference number maching the one the machine give to me.A little reseach on the net point out that these harrassing phone call are realy from a collection agencie, and there the same people using ill?gal technique like seaching your personnel info or calling every matching name to find you or sending garantie approval credit card application, this way they get your updated info phone number ext,,,,,,.

They are are now using an Edmonton phone # (780) 328-6135 and still using the priority mail lies. They left the 1-+1 877-881-8088 number as well as a tracking number. You would think it would be illegal to pose as the post office's lost and misplaced department.