topic Potential Fraud in Get Support

Potential Fraud

MobileCurious — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:12:26 GMT

My wife is a caretaker for a senior who received a call from someone who represented himself as being from Telus/Public Mobile.

Michael #7701 - Contact # 647-493-6032 - Working at Erin Mills Parkway office.

He was presenting an offer for a device (Samsung S23) and service that seemed a bit too good to be true. I need to verify this legitimacy of this agent, or this case needs to be referred to law enforcement.

Re: Potential Fraud

softech — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:15:33 GMT

@MobileCurious I doubt it is real

First, PM does not sell the latest phone, I assume you meant S22, there is no Samsung S23 yet (if he did say S23, itis for sure FRAUD 🙂 )

And PM won't be calling it's customers for selling phones or selling plans

BTW, you said he is from Telus/PM? Did he ask you to join Telus instead? If so, it could be those Telus outside sales cold-calling

Re: Potential Fraud

dust2dust — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:17:18 GMT

As long as no personal information or identity verification was given by the senior then just ignore it.

Re: Potential Fraud

CountyDownIeUk — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:59:05 GMT

The number caller I’d might be spoofed. Also it is an Iristel voip number.

For some reason we get a lot of calls or texts from a 778 Iristel number in Prince George BC. And to us that can appear as a local number. Usually a political call.

I just called your number, mentioned here. Just keeps ringing. I would NOT follow up and would block the number if possible.

And why would Telus or PM use a VOIP service? It’s a scam!!