Check unknown Australian numbers with recent reports from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and more. Understand caller patterns and share your experience.
Unsure about an Australian number? Find fresh community reports to judge unknown calls or texts. Cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide show both legitimate callbacks (delivery, banking, appointments) and waves of phishing. Area codes (02, 03, 07, 08) are not reliable for location due to portability/VoIP — treat them as signal, not proof.
Good practice: return calls only via the official number on the provider’s site/app, check in‑app messages, and don’t share one‑time codes by phone. Enable device blocks and carrier filters (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone) and leave a short, factual experience here to help others.
I blocked the number after it rang, causing a pause while I considered whether to block it.
The caller hangs up upon answer, likely testing if you're there via robo‑call before redialing from another number… almost exactly a year after the previous incident. It seems they're resurfacing with old numbers; I had to clear my blocked list after it hit 250 entries, so the count must be climbing again.
Dialing back via 1831 0272458786 to conceal your caller ID results in the message "The number you have dialled is not in service". Immediately add this number to your block list.
Unsolicited junk
Automated call from the "Shop and Save Customer Team" at 0370549439 – add it to your blocklist.
Identified as Thailand Consulate‑General (www.thaiconsulatesydney.org).
An unknown overseas scammer employed a spoofed number from a call centre, delivering a silent call and hanging up shortly after it was answered.
Multiple calls from this number have hit my mobile; as an unknown contact I ignored them, and no voicemail was left. Out of curiosity, I dialed from a landline and an overseas speaker with an Indian accent offered solar panel and battery installations tied to a new government rebate. It feels like a scam, so I hung up, yet the number rang again today—annoying! The authorities should curb overseas scammers masquerading as local numbers.
A scam where the caller claims my Medway card is ready.
Institution: Queensford College – website www.queensford.com.au.
Greetings – please verify the contact +61732211626, as I received a call from Axis Institute's Kulshum Khan, and a Google search links the number to Queensford College.
Entity: Rapp Australia Pty Ltd (Lara, Victoria).
Fraudsters.
Also targeted other individuals.
It appears to have been a legitimate estate agent, but they failed to identify themselves or provide a name.
Visit Rockingham Drycleaners & Laundry (Rockingham, WA) – Dry Cleaners.
A spammer caller.
Link: https://www.probe.group/.
Looks like this line belongs to Matthew Kingsman. FYI
Calls from numbers that differ by a single digit keep coming. I block one, another pops up with a slight variation. This has persisted for months—what a pest.
Call back via the official company number (website/app), not the unknown number. Check in‑app notices.
Delivery/appointment confirmations, bank callbacks, 2FA codes; periodic robocalls, smishing around parcels, and fake support hotlines.
Not really. Portability and VoIP make 02/03/07/08 weak as location hints. Context and content matter more.
Be concise: caller type, purpose, date and cues. Avoid sensitive data.