TORONTO: Telephone scammers have begun to target refugees in Canada with extortion schemes by posing as government employees and threatening them with arrest or deportation unless they immediately wire money, Canadian authorities said.
With complaints to Canada's government surging, law enforcement officials last week warned that the scammers were taking aim at immigrants and refugees.
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