![]() Professor Lacey said Joy and Mr Fitzgerald had probably been caught up in an illegal international phone scam. "When you are in regional and remote parts of the country, communication is your lifeline." International crime calling One day, out of the blue, she too started being bombarded with calls from people all over Australia. One case involved Joy (not her real name), a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in a small rural town in Western Victoria, doesn't use a mobile phone or the internet and she has had the same landline phone number for more than 30 years. Let alone those living in the country who are often more reliant on their landline services. This kind of phone spoofing can be a real problem for the elderly. Professor Lacey said while many people probably answered that call, others missed it and called back, only to reach a confused and frustrated Mr Fitzgerald, rather than the phone scammer that had called them. "By choosing any particular number in the community whether it be just a community member or a small business they're already separating themselves from the criminal activity that's going on when they're making those telephone scam calls." "In a way what they're trying to do is distance themselves from the crime. In this case it appears scammers have randomly picked Mr Fitzgerald's number to make scam calls from. Professor of cybersecurity at University of the Sunshine Coast, Dave Lacey, said it was more than likely Mr Fitzgerald's number had been spoofed by a phone scammer. "When I spoke to Telstra, I was up at the Telstra shop, he actually just stood there and said 'I can't see a problem, I don't think there is one'." Who's calling? ![]() Mr Fitzgerald went to Telstra about the problem but was met with a blank. "I probably lost two days and in two days I could make upwards of $10,000 just by sitting in the office organising things," he said. Mr Fitzgerald said he was receiving so many calls his business phone was rendered temporarily useless. "They ring me up, old farmers, real old-school people, they'll still have this number in their old diary book … they ring that number for a bit of steel." "I got clientele that probably have the number written on their shed wall," Mr Fitzgerald said. Mr Fitzgerald said he was faced with the prospect of having to change his number, not an attractive prospect given he had recently bought the business and all the goodwill that came with its phone number. The affected number was Mr Fitzgerald's business landline for his steel and engineering company in Wangaratta in north east Victoria. I tried to explain to him that my phone had been hacked." "My phone number had called him about 25 times in a day. We provide the country code above the phone number list, with this country code you can get a more accurate phone number format."I had one bloke, he rang me up and he threatened to go to the coppers. Please do not dial because some numbers may be in use. We provide these numbers only to help you understand the phone number rules of various countries around the world and for research purposes. Some numbers contain '(',')' or some numbers start with the country code but others not, just because people have different writing habits. These numbers look exactly like the real, valid ones, because these numbers are collected from the yellow pages and directories, and have been revised and modified. ![]() ![]() These are random numbers from Australia, different area codes represent different locations. A complete and correct phone number must include the area code. If you see some numbers that do not have an area code, you can refer to other numbers in this list that contain area codes. Maybe the numbers you see have different styles, some numbers contain area codes(usually enclosed in parentheses), and others don’t, actually hese numbers are the same. We list these random numbers here to show different phone number formats from different countries. This page list 20 random phone numbers from Australia by default.
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