I just got a call from an Indian man claiming to be from the Aus Government. He said my bank was making unlawful charges and that the govt was refunding it. He made it convincing saying that I need not provide any bank details and simply had to choose whether I wanted it debited straight into my account or have a cheque sent to me. He then asked to verify some information. I hung up after talking for longer than I would have liked.

I think he was phishing for information and despite not giving much, I am still greatly concerned. Anyone know what the scam was trying to do?

(02) 6100 3159 This number(02) 6100 3159) rang up claiming to be 'James Lee'from the ATO in Canberra and that the ATO had a refund for us. They provided us with a TR Ref #.I have received several scam calls previously but this was very authentic. They even had our address details and said that they would be around our house to deliver the cheque. Then he went on to talk about a security UKASH voucher or something like that before I cut him off. The scary part was they had my personal details - What should I do?

My mum recieved an overseas call from an Indian woman, this woman had all her details, bank name, Account number, DOB, address....how this possible? This greatly concerns me. This woman then went on to say that the bank my mum banks with owes her money back, from the fees that she is paying per month and that they should not have been doing this and the bank wants to return the monies, the amount the bank apparently would like to return is $4851, and was asked to call Sherry Wood on this 02 Sydney number, Sherry is apparently from a govt depratment and would give mum more information, they also went as far as giving my mum a form reference number, in which my mum has no memory of ever filling out.
My mum started questioning the Indian lady, and this woman had the stupidity and ignorance of saying "if you dont want the money, the dont worry about it". As soon as my mum tyold me this I said this is fir sure a scam and dont call the Sydnety number and I jumped on line to investigate. This all happened 30mins ago.
Lucky I you guys.
Thanks for sharing.

hi, today i received the second call from an Indian guy who claimed to be from 'the Australian council reclaim department' sounds legit doesn't it? He knew my name, address(really scary!) and he claimed that the they won the case against the banks and now i will be receiving $3441.00 but first i need to go to the post office, ask for a 'western union money receiving form' , pay $150 then get my money. Thing is..i never signed up for the class action and another, i know for sure that the bank doesn't owe me that much money! Cause i just turned 18 and couple years back have only been on a 'youthsaver account' and i wasn't charged any transactions fees etc. http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/consumerprotect ... cam_-_over.html, this website helps a lot to identify the scamming company. Like people say..if its too good to be true, then its probably not. hope this helps someone else out there.

In order to get you refund, you will need to pay them a release fee of $150 or so, but you don't get the refund.

(02) 6100 3159
This number(02) 6100 3159) rang up claiming to be 'James Lee'from the ATO in Canberra and that the ATO had a refund for us. They provided us with a TR Ref #.I have received several scam calls previously but this was very authentic. They even had our address details and said that they would be around our house to deliver the cheque. Then he went on to talk about a security UKASH voucher or something like that before I cut him off. The scary part was they had my personal details - What should I do?