Phone NBN scammers.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I see contact tracers have had trouble contacting some people as it comes up as an unknown number and some people don't answer.

I had an email yesterday saying I had won a $100 Qld Holiday voucher and to click a link for details. I was suspicious, but it turned out to be genuine, so I may be going whale-watching. You never know.

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Originally Posted by 350RRC

I get the odd one on the mobile but have found the trick with an 'odd' number (with a location showing) is to let it ring a few times then answer.

If all is quiet on the other end one of the 32 numbers whoever has dialled has picked up.

If I hadn't have answered a call that was just a bit suss once I'd have missed out on a fill in fish survey job up at Ned's Corner, where I'd never been, all expenses, etc, etc.

A great gig teaching someone how to drive a boat in creeks, launch and retrieve safely with no ramps. Safety, safety and get the job done. Would have measured / weighed 50k fish that week. We were doing the small stuff with nets.

DL

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I always let the home phone answering machine take the call, which I "call screen" and answer it if I want. I normally don't answer the mobile unless I recognise the number but having said that, similar to the unsolicited whale watching and fish surveying, I did answer the mobile once while half asleep just after the GFC and it was my bank, about re-arranging my affairs so that I ended up with a $30K tax write off. [biggrin]

An answering machine.. [emoji41]
On a land line [emoji12]

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had one ring my mobile today, it was someone with a strong accent and you could hear the others there, it must be a call centre of scammers. this time amazon, about $700 iphone from amazon and lf i didnt order it to continue.
I started to play them by saying no speak english sorry, they kept trying and l said very expensive and iphone?
she asked if l wanted to cancel and if l had a computer, l replied no speak english, no computer. she gave up and said l didn't have to do anything she would cancel from their end and said good bye.
l had Heather in the background yelling at me to hang up to the scammers, but this was fun.

best one i ever had was way back when we had a landline [only had it as son was newborn and wanted to be able to call 000 if any issues, no one had the number and we didn't dial out on it], they auto dial the numbers and wait for you to say something so this lass was talking to her friend next cubicle over about how she maxed her credit card buying sexy undies... i listened for a few minutes then coughed and she hung up.

she was rather descriptive btw

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Originally Posted by Saitch

Yep, I quite often get some Aussie sheila's voice, warning me that my NBN will be cut off. Don't even have it here.
Same sheila, I reckon, does the Amazon account scam, another non-account I have.

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Yep, That's Nicole. We all love her...:bat:
Terry