CEWS processing centre?"CRA" scam?

goldenball wrote: ↑ Hi the CRA processing centres for my corporation are usually Sudbury and Ottawa. Yesterday I received a voicemail from a 204 (Winnipeg?)area code addressing me by first name asking me to call back otherwise my CEWS application won't be approved. Does it look like a scam?
Anyway I have asked my accountant to deal with it. But it sounds fishy.

Scote64 wrote: ↑ The government said that something was supposed to start happening with the CEWS applications May 5, but so far nothing. That certainly leaves the door open for scammers, but since we don't know what form the response will take, it could be anything from phone calls to emails to messages on the CRA web site to a straightforward bank deposit. There is a large CRA processing centre in Winnipeg for western Canada, and the CRA could be distributing the workload. Caller ID can be spoofed, and leaving call-back messages is not a secure way of contacting people, but the CRA does it routinely. You can check the number in Google to see if it has been flagged as either a legit CRA number or mentioned as a probable scammer - but it's hit and miss.

goldenball wrote: ↑ Hi the CRA processing centres for my corporation are usually Sudbury and Ottawa. Yesterday I received a voicemail from a 204 (Winnipeg?)area code addressing me by first name asking me to call back otherwise my CEWS application won't be approved. Does it look like a scam? Caller asked me to call back this 204 # but and also read out a paragraph of disclaimer basically saying as it is not a secure line, answer with this caveat!
Anyway I have asked my accountant to deal with it. But it sounds fishy.