特鲁罗地区一名女子表示，周末一名企图行骗者招来两个不同部门的荷枪实弹警察到她家，她至今惊魂未定、心有余悸。
A Truro-area woman says she is shaken and terrified after a would-be fraudster sent heavily armed police from two different departments to her home over the weekend.
最初那通电话看起来像是一起普通的电话诈骗。一名自称是加拿大帝国商业银行（CIBC）欺诈部门的女子打电话给林恩·克拉克·科尔皮茨，称有人用她的名义申请了一张信用卡。为了阻止此事，她建议克拉克·科尔皮茨下载一款名为“CIBC Guard”的应用。
The original call seemed like a routine phone scam. A woman claiming to be from the CIBC fraud department called Lynn Clark Colpitts and said someone had applied for a credit card in her name. In order to block it, she advised Clark Colpitts to download an app called CIBC Guard.
科尔皮茨说，她对这样做或在电话中透露任何信息都感到不放心。通话期间，她把单位的技术专家拉进了电话会议，后者告诉她，在联系自己的开户分行之前什么都不要做。
Colpitts said she didn’t feel comfortable doing that or sharing any information over the phone. While she was on the call she conferenced her IT expert from work into the call who told her to do nothing until she contacted her branch.
“我礼貌地告诉她，我说对不起，我必须按照我的IT人员告诉我的去做。然后她对我骂了脏话，”克拉克·科尔皮茨说。
"I told her politely, I said I'm sorry I have to go by what my IT guy told me to do. And then she used some profanity toward me,” Clark Colpitts said.
“她骂了我两次‘他妈的贱人’，然后就挂断了我的电话。”克拉克·科尔皮茨以为自己躲过了一场骗局，但20分钟后事态升级了。“她一直在威胁我”“她又打给我说，‘我给你准备了一个惊喜。去你的前门。那里有个惊喜等着你。’我就想，‘你在说什么？’”果然，当她走上门廊时，她看到院子里和街上站着科尔切斯特区皇家骑警和特鲁罗警察局的荷枪实弹的警察。
“She called me a f-----g b---h, twice, and then hung up on me.”Clark Colpitts figured she’d dodged a scam but 20 minutes later things escalated. 'She was threatening me the whole time' “She calls me back and says, ‘I've got a surprise for you. Go to your front door. There's a surprise waiting for you there.’ And I'm like, ‘What are you talking about?’" Sure enough, as she stepped onto her porch she saw heavily armed officers from the Colchester District RCMP and Truro Police in her yard and on the street.
“他们冲我喊，问我是谁，”克拉克·科尔皮茨说。“我告诉他们我是谁，他们让我走到车道尽头。”几名警察进入了她的家，而克拉克·科尔皮茨则试图解释并不存在这样的威胁。在警察检查房产期间，骗子不断给克拉克·科尔皮茨打电话。她举起手机让警察能听到。
“They holler at me and ask me who I am,” Clark Colpitts said. “And I tell them who I am and they tell me to get down to the end of the driveway.”Several officers entered her home while Clark Colpitts tried to explain there was no such threat. While police checked on the property the fraudster kept up the phone calls to Clark Colpitts. She held it up so police could hear it.
“她一直在威胁我，说这事没完，还会继续下去。”皇家骑警向克拉克·科尔皮茨解释说，他们接到报警称她的住址发生了人质劫持事件——还有枪击。
“She was threatening me the whole time saying that she wasn't done with me and that this was gonna keep going on.”RCMP explained to Clark Colpitts that they’d gotten a call about a hostage taking — and shooting — at her address.
来电、电子邮件和死亡威胁“这似乎是本案中诈骗者的一种报复行为，”科尔切斯特地区皇家加拿大骑警指挥官马克·罗斯警长说。
Calls, emails and death threats“It appears to be a level of retribution by the fraudsters in this case,” said Staff Sgt. Mark Rose, commander of the Colchester District RCMP.
“[看来]他们这样做是为了让她受到伤害、痛苦和困扰，让警方去她家，这一切都是因为她没有按照电话里最初的指示去做。”周五到周六，那名女诈骗者的电话一直不断。“她就一直说啊说啊说。没完没了，”克拉克·科尔皮茨说。还有电子邮件。死亡威胁。
“[It appears] they did this to cause her harm and pain and distress by having the police respond to her residence all because she didn’t follow the original instructions on the phone." The calls from the female fraudster continued on Friday and into Saturday. “She just kept going on and on and on. It was relentless," Clark Colpitts said. And there were emails too. Death threats.
克拉克·科尔皮茨是一名房地产经纪人。她接到一位同事的电话，说有人黑进了他们公司的网站，撤下了克拉克·科尔皮茨的照片，换上了克拉克·科尔皮茨所说的“一只畸形的动物”。这一切让她害怕待在自己家里。
Clark Colpitts is a realtor. She got a phone call from a coworker who said someone had hacked into their agency’s website, took down Clark Colpitts's photograph and replaced it with what Clark Colpitts says was a “deformed animal.”All of it has left her scared to be in her own home.
“报假警”攻击总部位于弗雷德里克顿的Beauceron Security公司首席执行官兼联合创始人戴维·希普利说，加拿大人因电话诈骗损失了数千万美元，但据他所知，这是第一次升级为“报假警”攻击。所谓“报假警”，就是有人打电话给警方，举报某人住处发生了完全虚构的犯罪或紧急情况。
Swatting attack David Shipley, CEO and co-founder of Beauceron Security, which is based in Fredericton, says Canadians have lost tens of millions of dollars to phone scams, but this is the first time he’s aware of it escalating into a “swatting” attack. That’s when a person calls police to someone’s property to report a crime or emergency that is entirely fiction.
“这似乎是一个肯定没过好日子的罪犯，决定大幅升级此事的危险性和严重性，”希普利说。
“This seems like a criminal who was definitely not having a good day and decided to dramatically escalate the dangerousness and seriousness of this situation,” Shipley said.
“我认为这是一种恐怖主义形式，”他说。“加拿大人不习惯警察局的特警队带着突击步枪、防弹衣和防暴盾牌出现在自家门口。这非常、非常具有创伤性。”罗斯说，警方必须认真对待这些电话，并做出适当的回应。
“I would argue that this is a form of terrorism,” he said. “Canadians aren't used to having the SWAT team from the police department show up with assault rifles and body armour and riot shields to their front door. That's incredibly, incredibly traumatic.”Rose said police have to take these calls at face value and deliver the appropriate response.
“我们已向[克拉克·科尔皮茨]提供受害者支持服务，并且正在与我们在其他国家——以及加拿大——的执法伙伴合作，以确定此事是否与其他犯罪行为有关，并设法查明此事应由谁负责。”加拿大帝国商业银行（CIBC）在给加拿大广播公司新闻部的一份声明中表示，并不存在名为“CIBC Guard”的应用，该行也绝不会联系客户索要个人或财务信息，或要求客户下载应用。该行敦促人们在处理未经请求的电子邮件、短信或电话时务必极其谨慎，不要依赖来电显示。
“We've offered victim support services to [Clark Colpitts] and we are working with our law enforcement partners in other countries — and in Canada — to determine if this connects to other offences and try to determine who's responsible for this.”CIBC told CBC News in a statement that there is no app called "CIBC Guard" and that it would never contact customers requesting personal or financial information, or request you download an app. It urged people to be extremely cautious when dealing with unsolicited emails, texts or phone calls, and not to rely on caller ID.
该银行表示，正在积极教育客户防范冒充诈骗和其他骗局，并敦促人们若自身或他人安全面临紧急威胁，应拨打911。与此同时，克拉克·科尔皮茨说，她受到了心理创伤。“有很多事情本来都可能出大问题。”
The bank said it's actively working to educate clients about impersonation and other scams, and it urges people to contact 911 if there is an urgent threat to their safety or the safety of others. Meanwhile Clark Colpitts says she's traumatized. “There's so many things that could have gone badly wrong.”