Increased number of "asian" scam calls including 0800 numbers

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#2970814 21-Sep-2022 09:46

That sounds like a cop out. You’d expect that they could collate spam call complaints across their customer base.

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#2970822 21-Sep-2022 10:08

Yeah that sounds like the hard line that stems from the legislation requirements for lodging ptsn abuse

But reasonably sure in the day of ip, logs and handovers there should be more involvement with mass annoyance calls before getting to that level

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#2971846 22-Sep-2022 20:10

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Spoke with Skinny yesterday and I was informed that they can only respond if I've had 4 calls from the same number. Sadly all the recent calls have been from different numbers.

Argh

Call them again and explain that as they are a member of the NZ TCF they are obliged to act.

I had the same answer once with Vodafone and after I explained the above and waited a few minutes on hold they agreed and took down details of a single scam call.

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#2972012 23-Sep-2022 10:21

MadEngineer:

openmedia:

Spoke with Skinny yesterday and I was informed that they can only respond if I've had 4 calls from the same number. Sadly all the recent calls have been from different numbers.

Argh

Call them again and explain that as they are a member of the NZ TCF they are obliged to act.

I had the same answer once with Vodafone and after I explained the above and waited a few minutes on hold they agreed and took down details of a single scam call.

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#2972022 23-Sep-2022 10:43

Most of the ones that I'm getting seem to be spoofing legitimate looking domestic phone numbers, but when you call them back the number is invalid. They also seem to be varying the STD code - e.g. calling from 09 844... and then a bit later calling from 04 844...

Is there no way the telcos can detect spoofing of the caller ID?

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#2972032 23-Sep-2022 10:53

Also getting a lot of these and getting quite annoyed.

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#2972038 23-Sep-2022 11:05

alasta:

Most of the ones that I'm getting seem to be spoofing legitimate looking domestic phone numbers, but when you call them back the number is invalid. They also seem to be varying the STD code - e.g. calling from 09 844... and then a bit later calling from 04 844...

Is there no way the telcos can detect spoofing of the caller ID?

Only with lots of digging and blocking the inbound provider ip range I think. But many have a domestic presence now (google how popular voxbone is internationally for selling ranges to scammers which I think has been hitting a call centre here with domestic looking ones)

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#2972351 24-Sep-2022 00:47

I wonder if a lot of these spam calls are from people who have hacked pbx phone systems

and how many companies don't update their software / firmware for the phone systems or don't change the default passwords etc

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#2974952 29-Sep-2022 17:30

Cool, I'm now getting scam SMS messages from a supposed courier wanting me to open a link to a dodgy website to verify a delivery is for me or not.

029 020 72181

Replied to it with a polite response.

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#2974955 29-Sep-2022 17:47

hmm just got one of these for the first time today.. after just having moved to 2degrees.. hadn't had any at all over the past 5 years on skinny

Just a coincidence or does spark handle scam calls better?

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#2974957 29-Sep-2022 17:55

@dt coincidence

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#2974963 29-Sep-2022 18:08

xpd:
Cool, I'm now getting scam SMS messages from a supposed courier wanting me to open a link to a dodgy website to verify a delivery is for me or not.

029 020 72181

Replied to it with a polite response.

The unfortunate real owner is likely confused by all the abuse

Most the time spoofed froms.

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#2974969 29-Sep-2022 18:36

xpd:
Cool, I'm now getting scam SMS messages from a supposed courier wanting me to open a link to a dodgy website to verify a delivery is for me or not.

029 020 72181

Replied to it with a polite response.

I got one from a similar number last week

029 020 79944

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#2974972 29-Sep-2022 18:47

I have been getting quite a few scam calls from what appear to be spoofed mobile numbers, eg beginning with 022.

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#2974990 29-Sep-2022 20:18

Same here, seem to go through passes were I'll get a few then they stop for a few days. I've just stopped answering my phone as I don't really tend to get many calls that need me attention and anything important they'll leave a voicemail or have another way to message me. It's getting wow annoying though.

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