Just had the scammers pretending to be Human Services. Gave me a fright but on returning the call it sounded like a madhouse. Rang back got a cocky female Indian voice once again....when I asked her if she was scamming she went quiet then asked me why I thought that! So sick of dishonest people from the same countries. Hope no oldies get sucked in. Will report to police and Telstra for what it's worth.....

It is a scam. They sometimes call pretending to be the Federal Police. Just hang up and block them.

said they were "centrelink" asked to dial 1 or 2 if I received payments??

Received recording phone call from (02) 8607 8601 stating "this is a computer generated call from Human Resources ... congratulations your pension rates have increased ... If you have a Centrelink pension 'push 1' if you ..... etc, etc". immediately HUNG UP !! I'm convinced its a SCAM call.

Received calls twice today from this number. I don't answer numbers I don't know so no idea what they wanted. They didn't leave a message

Received call from Centerlink about being due for a back payment. This is weird as I am a totally self funded retiree and have never received a gift/grant/bonus/dole/stimulus package or any other Centerlink payment in my life. This has to be a scam

SCAM......(02) 8607 8601..... made to a business number in Adelaide CBD.

Received the same recorded message saying my pension had increased but I hadn't replied to any of their correspondence; told me my Application number was 080456 and that to ring Cenrelink in Canberra on (02) 8607 8601.

Same story they called an elderly lady I look after and told her they would deliver her cheque to her house Monday but she had to buy $200 I tunes voucher for admin fees
We were suds about it and called Centrelink to report these scammers

yes they did the same to me, at first it sounded legitimate but then it suddenly hit me why should I buy an itunes card just to talk to a centrelink officer.....absolutely ludicrous.....do not give out any information, very very dangerous and they can get your details and you will be in trouble....hang up straight away.......said I had backpay and that i needed to pay a registration fee....ridiculous!!

Received a recorded message stating they where from Centerlink something about back payments etc... the number was engaged when I rang had a strange feeling about the phone number, googled and discovered I am not the only one... I always seem to get this idiots I get calls saying they are some the tax office, I have won something (I have a private number) go figure..

"Centrelink" called and told me I had an increase in my pension, but I didn't fill in the paper work with the right information. I had to call them back with my details otherwise Centrelink would cut my pension.

I also got the recorded message last night saying they were from Centrelink; very insistent that I had not responded to any of their previous correspondence and requesting I call back as soon as possible. Glad I looked here first before calling them on the telephone number (02) 8607 8601. I'm not even a Centrelink customer.

We had the same person with the same story from the same number.

We received a call from "Centrelink". Asked for Apple Itune card to pay an admin fee for Centrelink. His name was "Peter Jones".

This is number given to me to ring by the scammers after I received a scam phonecall saying it was centrelink and they had tried to contact me numerous times re back payments. The number they originally rung me on was (03) 6437 2749. I gave both of these numbers to scam watch on 1300 795 995

SCAM - wanting me to buy iTunes cards. Moron!

Scammers told us to ring this no ...they claimed they were Centrelink...... The number they rang from was (03) 6437 2749 we rang this one back and were told message bank full..is there any way of reporting these numbers so they can be cut off?