琉璃神社 police are warning the public about a phone scam involving the RCMP鈥檚 non-emergency phone number.

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, the 琉璃神社 RCMP received a report from a resident who stated they received a call from 250-250-0311. They stated the caller advised them there was a warrant out for their arrest and then asked for their personal information including full name, date of birth, address, driver鈥檚 license number and some banking information.

After realizing it was a scam phone call, the resident hung up the phone. A few moments later, the resident received several phone calls from 250-762-3300, which is the 琉璃神社 RCMP鈥檚 non-emergency telephone line. The resident never answered and the phone would ring through to voicemail, leaving a recording of white noise.

鈥淭he scammer(s) are clearly using some sort of caller ID spoofing technology to impersonate the police. In some cases an officer could in fact call someone to say they have a warrant but would never ask for this type of corroborating information, especially banking info鈥� says Cpl. Michael Gauthier. 鈥淔ortunately, this person realized something was suspicious, ceased communications immediately and phoned the real police.鈥�

The RCMP would like to remind anyone who may have been victim to a scam attempt to contact Equifax at 1-800-525-6285, Trans Union at 1-800-888-4213, and to report the matter to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (1-888-495-8501).

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