Called and my wife answered. They asked, with a think Indian accent, to speak to Mr. [insert surname]. My wife told them I wasn't available and they hung up. Glad I checked here before thinking of calling back.

Got a call from this number today. An Indian woman (thick accent) claiming her name is "Sandra". Alarm bells right there. She said she was from the government and assured me it was not a marketing or sales call. She explained how people under 59 years old can now save heaps of tax.....I cut her off there. I am a tax agent and I said what she was saying was crap. I said I didn't believe her name was Sandra, I didn't believe she was in Australia and that she is full of it.

She made out she was so offended that I didn't believe her. I hung up on her and called the number back and received the "Optus regrets this number is no longer in service" message.

I am getting pretty fed up with Optus and Telstra allowing overseas scammers to use local numbers to seem legitimate.

Apparently Telstra can put a halt to this but they make money from allowing it. Not sure if this is true, but I have had another two scammers call me (from private numbers this time) while I have been typing this.

Indian accent female looking for the home owner, phone displays what looks like a Sydney number. Starting to say they conducted research in our area a few months ago, and I probably wouldn't remember the call. I said, "no." and hung up. When I rang back the number, got the OPTUS recording messaage saying number no longer connected. Obviously overseas scam - why and how does it display a disconnected (02) number?.

Calls everyday on caller ID reported to do not call register ! So over it !

Indian accented man said he was from Government with confidential information. I asked for the first name of the person he wanted as there was several at this number. He hung up

Received phone call 8:39pm 30/04 asked my surname and he hung up.
Rang number back and like all of the other compliants Optus Service announcement has been disconnected. You would think that with all the technology we have in communication that they could stop this nuisance calling

Brighton Group. I must have given them some information in the past as they always ask the same question about employment. Last night I told them I was unemployed and they hung up

Looking for the home owner, even though it looks like Sydney it is definitely from overseas & not very clear English. I hung up, haven't called back yet.

I get this number very often too - I ignore. It's annoying though ! I'm so sick of all these calls

Received a call from someone allegedly representing the Brighton Group (unable to find any trace of them) with an offer of a personalised report. This listed opportunities for me to substantially reduce my tax, accumulate wealth, blah, blah, blah...
No pressure, but the report couldn't be posted to me.

How can I get a call from a number that Optus says is "no longer in use"
Calls then doesn't leave a message

Rang this number with response stating "This is a number no longer in use". Message provided from Optus.

Keeps calling me everyday

Rings but they don't talk to you and then hang up.

missed call tried to call back...no such number

Calls everyday and hangs up.
Fake number from overseas, makes it look like its from NSW.

Calls constantly. I never answer numbers I don't know. Does not come up in directory. Rang them back and it's an overseas number. So a fake number to make it look like it's from Australia.