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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 131559 Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #30 - May 29^th, 2016 at 11:44am Agnes wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 11:39am: I get suspicious if the police ask for my name and phone number if I am filing a complaint What are you suspicious of? What do you think might happen?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 131559 Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #31 - May 29^th, 2016 at 11:48am Another scam to be careful of. Scam doing the rounds.
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freediver Gold Member Online www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47474 At my desk.	Re: Scams Reply #32 - May 29^th, 2016 at 11:53am Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 11:02am: What now begs the question is why do they use this recorded message and then dont speak to you if the call back number is dodgy, unless they are waiting to hear you speak and in my case I didnt? Dunno? Because getting a computer to talk to you is even cheaper than an Indian call centre.
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Re: Scams
Reply #33 - May 29^th, 2016 at 12:26pm

freediver wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 11:53am:

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 11:02am:

What now begs the question is why do they use this recorded message and then dont speak to you if the call back number is dodgy, unless they are waiting to hear you speak and in my case I didnt?

Dunno?

Because getting a computer to talk to you is even cheaper than an Indian call centre.

I realise that!

You didnt answer my question

After the message which contained a dodgy Sydney number to call (that doesnt answer) it just hung up . Was it hoping to detect a computer or my voice or something and then put the dodgy Indian on to speak to me...Weird!

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GordyL Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4365 Hate Town Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #34 - May 29^th, 2016 at 12:47pm greggerypeccary wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 11:02am: A lot of people get caught out by this scam (safe link). I strongly suggest reporting it to Scam Watch. Here's an even worse one http://tinylink.net/iI65H (safe link)
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Reply #35 - May 29^th, 2016 at 12:57pm

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 12:26pm: