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@stfl56 wrote:

This has happened to me today, with calls from the following phone numbers: REMOVED Why is nobody tracking these numbers and prosecuting the individuals who set up these automated calls!

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one of the pitfalls of our current communications technologies is the ability of a caller to have a different number appear on the receiver's phone.

Calls can originate in overseas countries but appear to be from Sydney or Adelaide or any other place in Australia.

Tracking the numbers and/or prosecuting the callers is nigh impossible.

If you search for the number on any of the 'reverse number search' webpages you can leave a message against that number to help others.  You may even find the number that called you has comments already.

http://www.reverseaustralia.com/lookup/0291129640/

As an aside, my wife has received several calls to her mobile from people claiming they are calling her back because they missed her call.

One particular caller upset her with his rudeness so she gave her phone to me.  I asked this d/head when the call was made and he said "minutes ago".  I told him my wife and I were sitting watching telly and that no call was made from my wife's phone.

He got all threatening and abusive so I hung up on him and blocked the number he had called from.

It is quite possible that some scammer was able to call him and have my wife's mobile number appear on his caller ID.  Fortunately, my wife hasn't received any of those type of calls since that aggressive caller.  If someone calls and says they are returning a missed call she would now answer "wasn't me" and hang up and block.  No point engaging with agrieved strangers over this.