By Kurt Seifried (kurt@seifried.org)

So first a little background: I got married about 6 months ago.

So my wife gets a phone call to her cell phone from someone at the Canada Revenue Agency (”CRA,” the canadian version of the IRS) looking for “Mr. Kurt Smith” (Smith being her maiden name for the purposes of this story). The caller wants to confirm my mailing address and some other details. Now this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense since my name is normally “Kurt Seifried” (it’s what all my underwear says) and my accountant usually acts as my interface to the CRA.

Sound familiar? Sort of like.. you know, a phishing email?

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