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“They came right out and said that there’s a warrant for my arrest,” she said.

“At first, maybe I thought it was a wrong number.”

When the mysterious caller suddenly hung up, she looked up the number on call display and called it back — just to make sure.

“They asked me my name, and said, ‘oh, yeah — we have your file right here.’ ”

She said she was reminded of a similar email she’d received the previous month likewise demanding payment for outstanding tax debts, which she’d then dismissed as a scam.

Now convinced the caller was legitimate, Levovnik was told she had two choices: pay her ‘outstanding balance’ of $5,950, or settle the matter in court.

“They said they’d take away my driver’s licence, take away my passport,” she said.

The scammer told her they’d only accept payment through bitcoin, and even gave her directions to the nearest bitcoin ATM.

Warning her not to hang up as she drove to the ATM, the scammer walked her through the process of converting her cash into crypto and then sending it.

Once the $5,950 was sent, they convinced her to make a second transfer of $4,550 to cover “administration fees.”

That’s when the scammers got greedy, she said — and Levovnik got suspicious.

“They wanted me to pay them another $14,000, and provide three witnesses to verify that I won’t be cheating the government anymore,” she said.

It was enough for her to hang up and head home, where she paid a visit to the CRA website — and was immediately greeted with warnings about criminals posting as agency reps.