Caller: Fundraising charity

Returned call, recorded message staying was a well known fundraising charity.
Couldn't take my call right now.

I found it a bit suspicious
Have blocked caller

Caller: Supposedly a charity!

Said they were from 'Next Step' charity whatever that is. I asked them their phone number but was met with total silence.
This nonsense is making the phone service useless and nothing is being done about it. Not that our government ever does anything unless it's for their wealthy mates.

Caller: One of Australia's leading charities

Didn't answer as in country area and is unrecognised Melb number. Was not on the rev/Aust data base so rang back and got recorded message "thanks for calling back we are one of Aust leading charities" & I hung up.

Caller: Scammer

Called me on 7/01/21 at 4:30pm Stupid me i answered the call, Female with a Australian accent said she was from a company called the next step,i said im not interested, She started laughting then tells me F off,,,So its a scammer

Recorded message telling me that my credit card has been compromised i hang up on the low life even if it was a genuine caller, you should do the same there's no way someone is going to take my hard earned money.

Call me at 6:30pm, WST time on the dot. After reading the below comments I blocked them.

I get many calls every week ever sinced I said one yes to a question on a so call charity questioniar or poll or survey or what ever else they freindly label it as. Other people please beware not to say yes despite you have helped them in the past as this opens the flood gates to other charities possibly even scammers if the information is sold to the wrong people.

I am for ever blocking calls and continuing to use reverse look up in case there is a genuine call I need to answer. For me luckily the calls less freuquently originate from Perth (my hoem city) and majoirty are from other states. Never had one from SA, NT or TAS, yet, making it easier to filter, as most people call me on a mobile number.

Most often with these calls I wait for some one to speak (do not say anything yourself); there is often no responeone, I heard they multi call a bunch of numbers and hear who replies. So be in a quiet place to answer and you know if there is not a replay it may not be human but something perhaps suotomated to respond.

IMPORTANT:
For those that are not in the know you can registere yourself on the do not call register on the .gov.au site. Careful, I am suspicious that questionair targetted at me was a way around for them to bypass that register!

Thanks to all who left info on this number. I let the call go through to message bank - no msg left of course but the number was showing and as unknown to me I came here as usual. From the dates of previous posts it looks like the lowlife abusing the telephone system took an ill-deserved Christmas break.

Have had numerous calls from 'strange numbers' - charity, pretending to be ATO, etc., etc. As our landline is only used to facilitate our NBN connection and we don't use it for receiving/making calls, I have put the ringer on 'silent'. However, I do have '"caller id" set up on our landline so am able to retrieve the phone numbers that have attempted to ring our landline. Well worth the few $ you pay to have caller i.d. on your landline.

no message=blocked number

Called me as I was entering a dead zone wasnt my relatives number so expected it was yet another Indian scammer, not being racist just stating facts that 99% of these dodgey $&$&%@ are of that decent, worked in telemarketing myself and well to aware of how simple it is to get a free multidialer and slap on some BS speil to lure hard working people out of their funds...quit working for alot of them for that reason. Lowest of the low scum and thats putting it nicely.

this number is one of the 3 worst persistent scammers who simply will not give up. Yes they blocked but the modem log shows their repeated attempts of 20 or more tries every few days

called about 4.30pm didn't know number and they left no message these monkeys just show how stupid they are as we can check them on this great site thank you reverse numbers

Caller: Next Steps / Spammer?

This number called me while I was on another call. I did have a call from Next Steps yesterday from this number : (03) 8588 3916 collecting funds for Domestic Violence support. She was terribly cheerful for such a serious thing. Dodgy.

Next Step is a genuine charity but its offices are in NSW so could well be a scammer using them as a front.

Same old, same old, same ....... never leave a messgae, they are a pain in the you know what !

Caller: (03) 8572 7221

Did not go through. Checked online. Says scam.

Caller: Charity Scam

Supposed Charity scam. I answered the call, and some person started talking about their supposed Charity. When I asked that I wanted more information about their organization, the person hung up.

As per all the other complaints - number now blocked.

Unfortunately, charities are exempt from the "do not call register".

I blocked this number weeks ago but still these scamming pests will not abandon their harassment and keep trying to call me, usually at dinner time. A pox on them.