Thanks for the reminder Bob.   

So far my wife and I are still able to distinguish, and hope it continues for a good long while, but I gotta feel for those afflicted with various forms/degrees of dementia.  [Some time back we got a "CRA" phone call, but no e-mail .... yet.]

... and in any event, who do they think will be impressed with $6400 nowadays?  

When I get a legit email from the CRA they tell me something has been posted on my online account and might need my attention. I forgot my password, passcode, or whatever so I phoned them,, took an hour waiting to speak to a kindly gentleman who asked me a bunch of questions to verify who I was (not Chas Van Winkle, btw) ,, things like what was the name of your first pet, where did you live in grade 3, etc. so when that rigamorale was finished, he looked into my file and it turned out to be nothing important. So from now on, I’m ignoring anything from them and I’ll wait ‘til they axe their way into my apt. if it’s something of consequence.
Like our once jovial, sometimes surly, and often pickled Premier Ralph Klein once said, “Keep the Feds out of Alberta.”

Can confirm, CRA will not call you, text you or email you.

You have to access your MyCRA account online and check the message inbox if you're awaiting any sort of info on their part.

Also, it's not tax refund season lol

I keep receiving fake RevenueQuebec text messages saying I received $650 in tax refund this month... Joke's on them! I actually owed taxes last year and dont qualify for any refund!

Yes, I do get emails saying there’s a new notice on my account…as I ‘splained ^^^

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Yes, I do get emails saying there’s a new notice on my account…as I ‘splained ^^^

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Weird, I must have opted out of email CRA notifications forever ago.

Either way, they won't email you with a big long email. It'll be something like "check your CRA inbox for further info".

Oh yeah,,it’s about 4 lines long,, and then en francais,of course. Why not francais first? John Cabot or Jacques Cartier?

Don't worry. In a couple generations the french language will no longer exist anywhere on earth... Thank God.

@Chuno that seems a bit harsh!

Not harsh enough. There's a reason it's one of the quickest declining languages on earth.
French is my native tongue and I refuse to speak it unless I absolutely have to.

Geez guys. I only meant to post a caution.  

But, but, but Bob .... one can't be too cautious.   

And... The Hockey Sweater just wouldn't be the same ... ditto for French speaking 'ockee player being interviewed in da henglish.   Gotta keep things "interesting," no?

A Hab is a ‘ab

Speaking of being cautious Owen, Tuesday this week I received ten phone calls in a four hour span advising me that someone had bought something worth $649.00 on my Amazon account. Funny? thing is six of the calls were long distance and four were local. same woman though (Olivia) Must be a time traveller.

Nuthin' to do with phishing, but one of my all-time favo(u)rite interviews featured Claude Provost.  After the first period of a game with Boston, a period where Ferguson and Green had had a scrap, the interviewer asked a typically innane question about some technique or other the 'abs had used [or not], and Provost answered: "Boy, dat Fergie, 'e sure give it to Green, eh!"

Edit: We probably only average a spam call once a week; 4 or 5 emails a day.... so far we've been making do with simply trash(ing) them.  Mostly "confirmation reciepts" or some such malarkey for entities (?) we've not done business with, at least not in recent memory. 

However, we did get one just  yesterday [and previously a couple of years ago]. The computer appeared "frozen" and I was advised "Do NOT turn your computer "off" ... call such-and-such a number, etc."  So, naturally... I shut it off [with the button];  let it sit for a bit and then started it up.  It took longer to fire up, but so far as I can tell it's working as it was before. [I'm not advocating this method, just recounting what I did.] 

Those scams are going around out here too. You know it's a scam when they want payment in gift cards!

Some people are getting bogus calls from the CRA too. A guy said "Yeah Right! Ever wait for a call from them when they owe YOU money! A call out of the blue from them HAS to be FAKE!

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I don't know who it was, as we were living in Toronto, but my brother told me of the TV commercial for Dorion Suit, a store in (duh) Dorion, a Montreal suburb. It may have been Serge Savard. Anyway, the tag line at the end was, "Come to Dorion Suit, where there are no hassles!" Trouble was, "hassles" with his accent sounded like, uh, the word for anal cavities. So they redid the ad, and he said, "Come to Dorion Suit, where there are no ... (insert big smile on his face here) ... problem!"

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Nuthin' to do with phishing, but one of my all-time favo(u)rite interviews featured Claude Provost.  After the first period of a game with Boston, a period where Ferguson and Green had had a scrap, the interviewer asked a typically innane question about some technique or other the 'abs had used [or not], and Provost answered: "Boy, dat Fergie, 'e sure give it to Green, eh!"

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Or the post-game interview with the Habs' Saku Koivu, who scored a really pretty goal and then celebrated. When the interviewer said that DC/MD liked the move he made after he scored, Koivu snapped back, "Didn't he like the move I made when I scored?"

My brother and I were at a semi-final game at the Forum, where the Habs beat Chicago (with the Golden Jet) 6-2. A Quebecois sitting beside me, after another Canadiens' goal, said, "'ockey? Dey don' know 'ockey. bezzball, dat's deir game!" We maudit anglais told lots of French Canadian jokes back then, Not any more.

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Those scams are going around out here too. You know it's a scam when they want payment in gift cards!

Some people are getting bogus calls from the CRA too. A guy said "Yeah Right! Ever wait for a call from them when they owe YOU money! A call out of the blue from them HAS to be FAKE!

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My brother was executor of Dad's estate. After wrapping it up, he received a tax invoice (don't know if it was the feds or the province) - for ten cents. He went into the office and slapped a dime on the counter. The guy said, "I guess we goofed!"

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Nuthin' to do with phishing, but one of my all-time favo(u)rite interviews featured Claude Provost.  After the first period of a game with Boston, a period where Ferguson and Green had had a scrap, the interviewer asked a typically innane question about some technique or other the 'abs had used [or not], and Provost answered: "Boy, dat Fergie, 'e sure give it to Green, eh!"

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Or the post-game interview with the Habs' Saku Koivu, who scored a really pretty goal and then celebrated. When the interviewer said that DC/MD liked the move he made after he scored, Koivu snapped back, "Didn't he like the move I made when I scored?"

After criticism for picking a team Captain that didn't speak French, Saku remarked to the press the next day, "I speak a little French in my wife's ear at night." 

I kept a running total spreadsheet of how much money I was being promised by scammers for one year.
Posted it on the HangOut.
It was in the BILLIONS by the end of the year.
I shall do it again in 2023.

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I kept a running total spreadsheet of how much money I was being promised by scammers for one year.
Posted it on the HangOut.
It was in the BILLIONS by the end of the year.
I shall do it again in 2023.

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Hey Mike.  Could you keep a spreadsheet for the time required to maintain electronics, cars, mowers, hot water heaters, etc.. according to the instructions you receive when you purchase them?  I'm suspicious that we don't have the time to complete all the work required to just maintain a home.

Actually, just dealing with potential scammers takes up a lot of time.  Discover just shut down my card, but I didn't believe it until I couldn't use it.  I'd received a couple calls, but just assumed it was a some scam.  Meanwhile all the direct charges that I use that card for started backing up.

And a shout out to Canada.  I have always felt it was my home and native land.  Glad to get back to it three times this year after the Covid lockout.

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Oh yeah,,it’s about 4 lines long,, and then en francais,of course. Why not francais first? John Cabot or Jacques Cartier?

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Because then it would have to be Italian and French. "John Cabot" was really Giovanni Caboto.

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Not harsh enough. There's a reason it's one of the quickest declining languages on earth.
French is my native tongue and I refuse to speak it unless I absolutely have to.

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It's certainly a frustrating language. Written French is pretty easy ... give me a French newspaper story and I'll be able to tell you what's going on, even though I might screw up the details. Spoken French is a nightmare, where any letter in the last half of a word is probably silent.

BHO is certainly an interesting site, We went from a caution of a possible scam to a language debate!

Bob ...aren't you remiss in not issuing the caution in both official languages?? ?