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Canadians tell us they’re fed up with scam calls. So why did the RCMP dismantle its phone scam task force?

We’re all sick and tired of picking up the phone and finding a phone scammer on the other end. 

For five years, Marketplace has been on the case, investigating the scams, the scammers overseas and the alleged co-ordinators in Canada who funnel money abroad.

In 2018, the RCMP launched Project Octavia, a special task force dedicated to stopping scam calls that formed in