The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) reports that it has received about 74,000 complaints about the calls since 2014, with 4,000 victims reporting more than $15.2 million in losses to the scammers. So Sharron Matthews and her friends put their acting skills to use I wasn't.' How the CRA tax scam keeps duping usĪ scam artist tried to con her mom. The resulting conversation with a man claiming to be a CRA scammer provides some insight into why they continue to target Canadians and why the recent busts will not deter them.Īre you being scammed? Here's a quick guide to find out We called back to see if anyone would share their story. They said we had to contact them immediately to remedy a tax issue.
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29, following news of raids against call centres in India, StarMetro received a call to a newsroom phone from someone claiming to be from the CRA. That's what he's doing, isn't it?" he said. He's an executioner he has to execute people, he has to kill people. Some panicked victims send thousands of dollars. They tell people they owe tax money and will be arrested if they don't pay. The man with a light English accent says he's speaking from an India-based call centre where he and other scam artists work through the night, phoning Canadians and claiming to work for the Canada Revenue Agency. After this latest installment, it is time to exorcise the ghost of Raaz once and for all.VANCOUVER-The job is like being an executioner, says the voice on the other end of the phone. All I know is that the last thing Bollywood needs is a glut of limp and lifeless reboots to edge out more meaningful filmmaking. Granted, Raaz Reboot may surprise everyone by being a taut and well-made psychological thriller but I am not optimistic. Do the producers think their box-office cash cow has run its course? I hope so. Recently, Mahesh Bhatt announced that Raaz Reboot would be the last film in the Raaz franchise. The first- to go down the Bhatt hole and the second for the ensuing headache.” Only difference, here you need both the pills. One critic had this to say about Raaz 3D: “From being transported to a parallel universe to finding the ‘chosen one’ for the job, this film is quite like The Matrix. The Raaz series didn’t set out to be a classic but it even falls far short of its modest ambitions to be a plain old fashioned scare-fest. Watch what happens when his character in the film gets possessed:Įmraan Hashmi and Kangana Ranaut in Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009) Exhibit A: Ashutosh Rana, whose incessant shouting in Raaz, is supposed to invoke dread or intensity but instead may result in unintended laughter. The performers hit loud, screechy notes consistently. These films aren’t exactly subtle, so the acting follows suit. In 2012’s Raaz 3D, Bipasha Basu (yes, her again) with the help of lover Emraan Hashmi (yes, him again) tries to ruin rival Esha Gupta’s career by poisoning her with black magic water. The dead father, played by Jackie Shroff in a special appearance, is out to seek revenge from the corrupt people who murdered him out of greed for money. It’s just the spirit of his dead father working through him. The onus of saving her is then on him when she’s lying on the bathroom floor with her wrists slit or suspended in the air in an abandoned alley with scary things written in blood on the wall behind.
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He replicates them on canvas and to her misfortune, they come true. In Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009), Emraan Hashmi essays a painter who sees visions of Kangana Ranaut in near-death situations even though he’s never met her before. It went on to become the second highest grossing film of 2002, second only to Ram Gopal Varma’s Company. Raaz, the first in the series, starred Bipasha Basu as Sanjana Dhanraj, a woman haunted by the spirit of her husband’s lover. The franchise began as an unofficial remake (read: rip off) of the 2000 Robert Zemeckis film What Lies Beneath. Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu in Raaz (2002)