An email scam is circulating making serious allegations of viewing child pornography.
“It’s not all that difficult to go online, find a crest, download them on to a PDF and make something that looks real. It isn’t,” said Chris Lews, Former OPP Commissioner. “Notify the RCMP. They are well aware this is occurring.”
Lewis notes there are spelling and grammar errors. The request also refers to a state instead of a province.
A closer look at the headline reads Royal Canadian Mountain Police instead of Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The email appears to come from an email address almost identical to the RCMP’s legitimate address. The real email address uses a hyphen and ends in .ca instead of .org.
A Google search of ‘info@rcmpgrcca.org’ also identifies the address as a scam that is part of an ongoing fraudulent phishing campaign imitating the RCMP.
“If the RCMP are after you because you’ve got something on your computer, they are not going to send you an email to warn you,” added Lewis. “They come through your door with a search warrant and seize all your stuff.”
-Written by CTV Windsor's Stefanie Masotti