Comments on: Telus Warns of New Scam

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:50:56 +0000

I have only been with Telus internet for a short while but I am 100% convinced from my ongoing dealings with them that the scam referred to in your article is actually coming from inside Telus, that being the outsourced employees. 98% of customer service / techs wanted to know, er DEMANDED that I give them my password, telling me that I did NOT have administrative access to my own account and that they were the only ones who had the authority. Then they wanted me to give them permission to remotely access my computer. All this before I was even able to tell them what I was calling about. They were all quite smug about it when I started grousing. End result? My accounts have now been frozen for going on a week. The professional and personal damage on this end is immeasurable. It is well known that those who blamed others for the Reichstag Fire were the ones who actually started it. This needs to be investigated before more people’s lives are destroyed because their ID has been stolen by these crooks.

By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:54:44 +0000

I just got the call too through 778-370-8989.

By: canadian victim

canadian victim — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:23:48 +0000

this autonomic machine pretend a Bell telephone and asking me to push number 1 claim $s. Why in Canada allow this kind of scam?

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:57:25 +0000

I just got another one today too, July 8th. Had one the other day and told them to remove my number. Guess they didn’t listen! But it’s not just TELUS customers that its happening to, I’m with BELL. No one is safe!!

By: s

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:39:25 +0000

Got a missed call, but I am on Fido, so it’s not just Telus. However, my number is originally a Telus number, but that was 5 years ago, so not sure if that is why I got called.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:16:52 +0000

Received a call today from the same 250 number mentioned above on my BC cell (Telus). I don’t answer to numbers I don’t know, and I always look them up after. All I can say is YIKES that this one has been scheming for so long.

By: austin

austin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:51:22 +0000

i just got called by this number 250 930 4268. i was a “winner of 10000 reward miles”

By: erin

erin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:24:14 +0000

250-930-4268 is calling telus numbers in BC too. Just today. Didn’t answer.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:39:03 +0000

My cell phone and my wife’s cell phone both got called from 250-930-4268. They are using Airmiles customers winning rewards now and are dialing Manitoba numbers. I never pressed 1. LOL

By: TR

TR — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:07:12 +0000

Apparently they’ve started up again – I just got a call from 250-930-4268 on my cell. No voice message. (Thanks for the information about this number! I’ll avoid it if they call again.)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:31:28 +0000

Just got the same call this morning (Jul 4, 2011) .. did not answer and all I heard on the message was please press 1 to accept.

By: stu

stu — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:39:33 +0000

They’re back, calling from 250-930-4268, dialing cell phones

By: Roma Niascam

Roma Niascam — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:30:27 +0000

Got call on Rogers cell phone 2010.12.16.
Origin supposedly +40 (370) 986 8
(must be a spoofed number, there is no land/mobile prefix “370″ in country 40, Romania).

By: Ebony

Ebony — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:15:49 +0000

I also am getting calls from +40 (370) 986 86 a couple of times. Haven’t answered thanks to Game-Over posting the number. Thanks for that!

By: Margit

Margit — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:16:32 +0000

I got 2 of these emails in the last 2 days from info@telus.com
Subject line is TELUS WEBMAIL SERVICE
Scam … reasoning is if I am still paying for my Telus email then it shouldn’t matter to Telus if I use it or not and they know my password otherwise how could I log in to the system or they have activated acct. in the first place?
Dear valued Telus Account member,
This mail is to inform all our users that we will be maintaining and upgrading our website in a couple of days from now.As a Subscriber you are required to send us your Email account details to enable us know if you are still making use of your mailbox. Be informed that we will be deleting all mail accounts that is not functioning to enable us create more space for new subscribers,
You are to send your mail account details which are as follows:
User name:
Password:
Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database.