Am i getting aim by a scam?

[rocketscollectibles]

I shipped a few sales of pokemon cards to US by letterpost recently, using plastic sleeve + toploader and a bubble mailer. I just listenned to my voice mail on my phone and i got a very weird message from yesterday. It seems to be an automatic message but it claims to be from the canada border services agency, they say a parcel have been shipped under my identity and that contain illegal components. They say i'm issued a warrant arrest under my name...

That's a bit scary and i'm laughing at the same time... There's no way that there's a warrant arrest under my name for shipping a pokemon card what the hell... But they got my name, my phone number (it was not even on the package), they know its been shipped with canada post they say it, and to US

They end the message asking me to talk to a canada border services agency agent, to me it seems like a scam to get personal infos from me. But this is kinda scary... This clearly comes from my ebay activities and those cards i just recently shipped... I wonder if one package actually got stolen by advanced scammers 

Do you think it could be a legit message? What could i do if it's scammers that's scary they can interceipt packages like that and rob personal informations. Also the incoming call phone number is from my city i don't think any canada services use standard phone area codes... I'm kinda confuse. Anyone experimented this?

[rocketscollectibles]

Well after researchs if anyone wonder and ever receive a phone call by canada border services agency, this is 100% a scam attempt

I did read that they do not contact people. There's also a page on their website warning about scams using their name

I just wonder how the phone call i received fits so much with the time i started to ship to US. Might be just coincidental

[femmefan1946]

Scam.

CBSA monitors imports not exports. And they don't phone you to warn you so you can get into your black helicopter and flee the country.

SCAM

The phone call is random and coincidentally got a person who had recently mailed a package to the USA.

Nothing to do with CBSA with Canada Post with eBay.

Just random.

SCAM!!

Laugh and do nothing.

 Nothing was intercepted.

They don't have your personal information.

The number is not from your city - that's a fake too.

FWIW. I worked at CBSA once when the jetski guy was the minister, but really that was not CBSA.

[ilikehockeyjerseys]

Sounds like Canada Post is getting very serious about enforcing the 'paper only' policy in US lettermail! (Just kidding)

This is a common scam. Exact same call happened to a family member of mine. You have nothing to worry about. 

[marnotom!]

Just to underscore the excellent posts already made, CBSA has nothing to do with goods leaving Canada. It’s up to the customs offices in the receiving country to inspect ‘em.

[kawartha-ephemera]

These types of of random scam calls are ubiquitous, they've become so common I refuse to answer unless I positively recognize the number. They have the ability to hide behind local phone numbers which is irritating.

[ricarmic]

Unfortunately the law of large numbers says that if you send out millions of these scam messages, there will be a portion that "seem to make sense" to a very very small number of people but they only need a very very small number of people to reply/respond.....

I get many many of these via phone and especially emails almost every day.

Generally the phone ones are easliy caught, I've started having fun jumping the "story line" and telling the technical support person that calls to help me their next line...that usually frazzles them, but some have still tried to stick to the script even after I've said the next 2 or 3 lines in advance to them!!!

The email ones are sometimes very very good, although as long as one remembers to never click on links and go directly to the affected site to see if there is in fact a problem one is safe.

[kawartha-ephemera]

I agree, some of these scammers have become quite good with their fake emails etc. Over the last year I've noticed some start with voice calls then a few days later follow-up with text messages. If I don't answer either call or text they tend to give up, but they do eventually return for another kick at the can. Seems to take several weeks to run through their contact list.

I recently received a PayPal email notification that my account was limited. Common scammer ploy of course so I thought it was most likely one of those, but something about this one rung true. So, just to be sure I opened my browser and logged directly (never follow links supplied in emails or text messages) into my account. Sure enough, the notification was for real ... can neither make a payment or withdraw funds at the moment, I'm undecided wherther I'll comply or not. Fortunately I withdrew all funds several months ago. They did deposit after that a whopping 1.95 due to a class-action settlement award. Took awhile to figure that one out!

[pjcdn2005]

I got the same call this afternoon...a robo call but I never take those seriously and never  press '1'  to talk to someone.  

[zee-chan-jpn-books]

This is actually a really old scam that I have been getting once in a while for at least 5 years. I'm surprised that OP just started getting them now! 😬

[parts_and_diecasts]

I have a tower to sell you in Paris 😀

long time ago, in a previous life, when I was working in retail banking, a customer got mad at me when I revealed to him that the letter claiming he had won EUR300M was actually a scam attempt. If you are willing to believe in that BS, you know what they say: a fool and his money are soon parted...

as far as eBay scams goes, if I was a scammer, I would go for high dollar easy to resell high end electronics like iPhone 13 or PS5 consoles, not some $5 Pokeman cards (yes, typo is on purpose). You don't have much to lose or worry about.

Again, remember what I said: stop worrying about things that don't matter and won't help your sales

Print the bolded statement in large fonts and stick it on your computer monitor please.