Beware of 03 8844 0400
We have now had 3 e-mails from people about the number 03 8844 0400. The most recent of which detailed the following:
I have had this number call me on my mobile for the last 4 days at least 3 times
a day. When I answer there is nothing on the end of the phone. When I ring back
(I make sure I use the work phone hehe) I get this message “This number is not
in service” in an American accent and it hangs up. Now I was rung from this
number on Friday and a guy saying he was from Optus wanting to speak to either
me or my husband (he knew both our names). He said his name was Tom. The number
is 03 8844 0400. Whats going on here???
Upon doing some research into this number I have found out that the line is actually owned by Primus Telecom
and was issued on the 25th of January 2002 - Which would lead me to believe that this is NOT Optus calling.
Always be careful not to give out any personal information over the phone without some valid steps of authentication (names of the person leasing the number is NOT enough as this information can be easily obtained). If you are unsure then ask for a number to contact them back on, and always record who you speak to.
Many thanks to John, Paula and Mandi for putting us onto this!
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How do you stop this from happening?? I’m going nuts here!! Is there a way you can block the number??
Mandi Pamplin says...November 30th, 2006 at 11:38 am -
I’m still looking into that but your first stop should be to contact Optus and ask them to block the number for you. If that doesn’t work I would contact Primus Telecom and report the number to them as a possible scam number (feel free to link them to this article and let them know they can contact me about this if they need to).
November 30th, 2006 at 11:47 am -
Skelm, I love you. Will give it a try. This was starting to affect my sanity. . .
Mandi says...November 30th, 2006 at 11:49 am -
Whenever i get an unknown number from interstate on my phone i type it in google. This number has been periodically ringing me for about 2 weeks, but i have only answered it once to silence. It’s annoying.
Mike says...January 4th, 2007 at 5:53 pm -
Thank you so much! only had a couple, but was highly curious. yes i’m with optus too, strange! will report it but so glad i ‘googled’ the number.
Erin says...January 5th, 2007 at 5:38 pm -
i had 2 calls of this number this week. thanks for your guys’ info, never answered it. Since i am in a job-seeking period, i feel it very annoying.
daisy says...January 19th, 2007 at 5:16 pm -
Well the number just called me 30mins ago. I’ve been getting called by that number ever since I changed from Telstra to the iinet/ozemail internet provider for local calls.
Don’t answer it.
My phone information could have been sold by Telstra to someone else. Since I am not giving Telstra any business anymore.
john says...January 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
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