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Scam phone call season is now in effect | Opinion

Mohammed Adam: I got three calls in one day from different numbers with Ottawa area codes — all trying to get my personal banking information.

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In the past few weeks and months, I have been bombarded with scam calls trying to pick my pocket, and they have been so incessant I’m left wondering if I am being targeted, or it is just the luck of the draw.

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