{"id":511238,"date":"2026-03-03T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:33:11","slug":"ai-generated-cra-tax-scams-increasing-cybersecurity-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511238\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated CRA tax scams increasing, cybersecurity experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax season is underway and security experts warn that artificial intelligence is making it easier for even inexperienced fraudsters to fool their victims.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith AI, they can craft emails that are so believable compared to years past,\u201d Kaseya cybersecurity expert Miles Walker told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalnews.ca\/tag\/consumer-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Consumer Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Revenue Agency has stated that generative AI is creating more sophisticated malicious content, which would have previously required significant knowledge, time, and resources to design. Walker says this year he expects to see a significant rise in AI-generated voice calls, which weren\u2019t part of a cybercriminal\u2019s playbook in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become so much easier to generate those life-like voice calls and what they are doing is that they will send you to a call centre where you are going to be giving out information that you shouldn\u2019t be giving out,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Walker also expects to see an uptick in scams after the April 30 deadline to file your personal taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, more than any other, they are going to be looking at ways to attack you both before the April 30th deadline and after,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Consumer Matters: How to avoid tax scams'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WEB_NH_DREWA_CONSUMER_MATTERS_TAX_SCAM_WARNING-WEB.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:30<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConsumer Matters: How to avoid tax scams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11712746\/donald-trump-iran\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772526791_70_donald-trump-iran-update.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump says Iran war timeline is likely 4-5 weeks but could go \u2018far longer\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11713160\/bc-david-eby-niki-sharma-announcement-time\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772526791_561_GettyImages-923255262-e1647089511950.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tB.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward one more time\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common red flags to avoid being scammed include texts, voicemails, and emails created with a sense of urgency, a promise of large refunds, or a request to verify your personal credentials or banking information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever click on any links and only go to the agency\u2019s (CRA) official website,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA is also reminding taxpayers that the agency will never send refunds or payments by e-transfer or text message, threaten to deport or arrest you or use aggressive and threatening language.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Walker also recommends people set up multi-factor authentication to add another layer of protection to personal devices and accounts. He\u2019s also encouraging families to have an open dialogue around fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave conversations with your parents. If you have kids that are at the tax-paying age, have a conversation about cybersecurity. They probably haven\u2019t learned anything of this in school. When we are talking about older family members, they are the most vulnerable and that\u2019s one of the prey that cybercriminals are looking to attack,\u201d Walker added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Lifestyle<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tax season is underway and security experts warn that artificial intelligence is making it easier for even inexperienced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,1849,172895,203089,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-511238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-consumer","14":"tag-consumer-matters","15":"tag-tax-scam","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}